they said fvap does not conduct a nonresponse bias analysis that omb says is a necessary step in determining whether survey findings are biased. not conducting such an analysis limits data reliability. now i don't want to get into a statistical debate here, because statistics is boring. but the point is anybody who does surveys knows that there is bias in who actually sends them back and how accurate the information is when it comes back. the other problem with the samples were that it didn't accurately reflect the overall military population. for example, 25% of the surveys that came back were completed by senior officers and their spouses, even though there are only about 12% of the overall military population. >> but in making that assertion, as i understand, look, surveys are never perfect. >> i know that. but the point is -- >> compare -- wasn't it weighted? didn't they weight that. >> the gao says they didn't do it, okay. i would argue that we don't have significant evidence of improvement. in fact, the other data from the ec doesn't. i tell you, one of the biggest problems we had in t

so from our perspective it's not that the eac data is in contradiction to the fvap data. it's that the eac data is a subset of the fvap data. so i think that's an important element. on the gao criticism of the 2000 a survey of our non-response bias, that was when i first things i instituted for the 2010 survey. what it determined was that are statistical weighting methodology captures the non-response bias that would otherwise be inherent. when we talk of moving around a lot, this is why we truly believe that moving toward more electronic assess to ballot is so important. my time in the military, i have been recalled to active duty four times since 9/11, even those individual recalls either two or three addresses. but i've always had robert h. about kerry. go one step further, post the ballots online. if you post about online, anyone can access them at into. not just when he not just when he gets his e-mail address but whatever they want to hands our grant program in order to try to help states post these ballots online. as part of the -- we have stated that services need