and daniel garza is president of brthe advocacy gro, the initiative, which will host a policy forum withe president pence on frida daniel is also a former white house stafr in the bush administration and he joins us from mcallen, tes. we welcome both of you. we were listening to president trump's remarks at the white house just about half an hour ago, patricia lopez. the president again conning to -- continuing to cast doubt on mail-in voting. the people you talk to, how much confidence do they tell you the havee integrity of the american voting system? >> they have a high degree of confidence, and in minnesota, they've taken special precautions because we have been through this before with the frankecoleman race and others. so there is a ballot tracker t you don't ha check your ballots at the polling place a second titme. re's a bar code that's help match up thiong withill personally identifying information. sohis goes way beyond the old signature match. given l those things -- and we have had an unprecedented number of applications for absentee ballots come in. the secretary of state h

daniel garza is a former white house staffer in the bush administration. of you to the newshour. we were listening to president trump's remarks at the white house half an hour ago. the president again continuing to cast doubt on mail-in voting. the people you talk to, how much confidence do they tell you they have in the integrity of the american voting system? >> they have a high degree of confidence. in minnesota, they have taken special precautions because we have been through this before. there is a ballot tracker, you don't have to check your ballots at the polling place. there is a barcode along with personally identifying information, so this goes way beyond the signature match. we have had an unprecedented number of applications for absentee ballots come in. the secretary of state thinks a third of the state can vote by mail or early. judy: interesting. what about where you are? how much confidence to people have in the voting system? >> there is confidence in the voting system. latinos in texas will tell you that they have confidence. the rules ch