i think many of you know in the democratic state platform, with the good help of christine pelosi, we advised open source systems with mandatory paper ballots, similar to what was just described. we want you to know the ranked choice but to an issue is not the main focus of the election reform community, but it has become an issue, because at this point we are still not obtaining better security within the voting systems. that, in our opinion, is the job at hand, to make sure we have better election systems. people like allen becker, royce altman, the fellow that wrote the certification process for the federal government. it is pretty much concluded that the current systems are not appropriate. the question is where we go from here. this conversation seems to have been in the direction of talking about ballot design issues, and whether it is prudent to have an instant runoff rather than a follow-up runoff. i think those are interesting questions, and some of them are philosophical. my point today is to say i think we are good with the current ballot design. what we really need to do i

pelosi. >> democrats in the house a lot of female lawmakers. >> laura: christine gill brantd who herself is going to have trouble in her re-election bid. >> walk back something people don't care about. whether you have your party's come out in full throat support of something you do to simply walk it back you look like you are caving to pressure from republicans. it doesn't make them feel good. if you look at what obama has been done. in a sense primary season for him. check the box in the environmentalists keystone pipeline. >> laura: planned parenthood was happy about this. this is rhetoric over reality here. planned parenthood is happy. if planned parenthood is happy. a lot of people unhappy. i don't think the democrats are going to give them much trouble for this at all. good to see you again. thanks for joining us. >> good to see you. >> laura: i want top bring in greg abought who has been speaking about this, commenting about this and, in fact, a lawsuit in the offing, greg, tell us about it. >> well, lauer, we are combining with attorneys general from across the nation, just as we di