jason gant of south dakota. we have, you mentioned shannon county, an indian reservation in our state that of course we require preclearance on all of our registration and everything. but i want to make sure that i understand the election monitoring. i was elected in 2010 and i wasn't sure of how everything went down when your observers were in our state observing the election. i want to make sure that come the 2012 election should the department of justice should decide to, again, visit the great state of south dakota, i would welcome everyone to come visit south dakota, but you're going to be cooperating and and notifying my office as well as the local election officials to make sure that everyone is on the same page on what activities you're going to be involved in so that should there be an issue that we became aware of that we may require your assistance or vice versa, that we have that line of communication open and effective come election day. >> i agree and i look forward to that. i asked christo come wi

. >> jason gant in colorado. i know that the federal is battling with issues every day and that the federal government is a lot of times out of whack compared to what some of the states are doing, but with that note, with the help america vote act of 2002 and getting things ready for '03 and '04, those machines we've had for disabled folks, the ballot box, those systems are pushing at least ten elections after this fall, this summer, and there's going to be a pro where some of those systems are going to start failing which is then going to require states to either use leftover help america vote act funds, or for now the states to be funding the federal mandate. so i'm very cautious of where the federal government is. but i want to start thinking about when these machines start to fail, what is going to be the plan if we need to start today discussions whether we need to be planning on changing some of those requirements or if the federal government is going to say, well, states, you're not gow to have to pay for

>> jason gant, south dakota. i know of course congress is grappling with budget issues every day and a lot of the federal government is at times out of, out of whack compared to what some of the states are doing but on that note with the help america vote act passage back in 2002 and getting everything ready for '03 and '04, those machines that we've had for disabled folks to make sure they have access to the ballot box, those systems are now pushing at least 10 elections after this fall and this summer that, there is going to be a problem where some of those systems are going to start failing which is then going to require states to either use any leftover help america vote abt funds, or, for now the states to be funding a federal mandate. so i'm very cautious of where the federal government budget is, however, i want us to start thinking about when these machines start to fail what is going to be the plan if we need to start discussing today on the federal level of whether or not we need to be planning on chang