guest: at e.a.c. we are not in the business of legislating. again i think that to me when you look at election administration and you think about that baseline that i talked about earlier of good governance and customer service, how do you serve voters? when that is your framework, you can find a lot of areas of bipartisan agreement. the e.a.c. is a bipartisan agency. everything that we do as an agency we have to have bipartisan agreement on. there are so many things in this area that are really just about serving voters. host: laura is in spokane, washington, republican. good morning. thanks for waiting. caller: yes. good morning, mr. hovland. thanks c-span. my concern with the voting thing is what i have heard and have some reason to believe is that they are using a new system called equity where they throw out a certain number of votes in favor of their candidates. and how this is done is by friends of the politician managing the office. and also i want to know -- i have forgotten everything. sorry. can you tell me, can you tell me for a fac

guest: at e.a.c. we are not in the business of legislating. think that to me when you look at election administration and you think about that baseline that i talked about earlier of good governance and customer service, how do you serve voters? when that is your framework, you can find a lot of areas of bipartisan agreement. the e.a.c. is a bipartisan agency. everything that we do as an agency we have to have bipartisan agreement on. there are so many things in this area that are really just about serving voters. host: laura is in spokane, washington, republican. good morning. thanks for waiting. caller: yes. good morning, mr. hovland. thanks c-span. my concern with the voting thing is what i have heard and have some reason to believe is that they are using a new system called equity where they throw out a certain number of votes in favor of their candidates. and how this is done is by friends of the politician managing the office. and also i want to know -- i have forgotten everything. sorry. can you tell me, can you tell me for a fact -- we