but i believe numerous people in a.r.s. and san mateo county make me feel confident that we are on the right path, and the timing, whereas it's not desirable, it's certainly -- it's understandable and very, very similar to what my colleagues are experiencing around the country. >> supervisor peskin: all right. through the chair, i don't want to belabor the point, and i know supervisor haney wants to cycle into this meeting. how many r.f.q.s? >> we put out an r.f.q., and only one company replied. i'm sorry, i haven't been to my office, but i will send you that as well as a.r.s.s contract. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for remembering my request from last evening. transparency, transparency, transparency. so we count much more complicated things called elections downstairs once or twice a year, and we get frustrated when ranked-choice voting takes three or four days. the fact that you cannot in real-time at least reveal the numbers -- so fine. you're out there, you know, processing additional data, doing other things in the