host: jason snead? guest: well, the caller is absolutely right to point out that the election was conducted very differently from how it normally would proceed. there were lots of states that made fairly significant changes to their voting process. we saw a huge surge in absentee balloting. that's not inherently a problem in and of itself, but the problem really comes in when you are doing a few different things. one is, when you are rushing those sweeping changes into place, and if you're doing that in a state that doesn't custom airline deal with large numbers of absentee ballots, you're talking about new processes, new procedures, new training requirements for elections officials, potential confusion on the part of voters, all of which is to say there are a lot of things that could go wrong. we saw that in the primary, and any post mortem analysis of the election will show that there were problems and certainly hot spots in the general election as well. the other thing that we need to keep in mind is

host: jason snead?st: well, the caller is absolutely right to point out that the election was conducted very differently from how it normally would proceed. there were lots of states that made fairly significant changes to their voting process. we saw a huge surge in absentee balloting. that's not inherently a problem in and of itself, but the problem really comes in when you are doing a few different things. one is, when you are rushing those sweeping changes into place, and if you're doing that in a state that doesn't custom airline deal with large numbers of absentee ballots, you're talking about new processes, new procedures, new training requirements for elections officials, potential confusion on the part of voters, all of which is to say there are a lot of things that could go wrong. we saw that in the primary, and any post mortem analysis of the election will show that there were problems and certainly hot spots in the general election as well. the other thing that we need to keep in mind is tha

host: with us is jason snead, executive director of the honest elections project. he's here to talk about the election, and the name of your organization kind of sets the tone of the discussion this morning, jason snead. the honest elections project, tell us about that and how your group is funded. guest: well, we are a nonpartisan election watch dog group. we were set up and we started this project earlier this year, because we were anticipating that this was going to be not only one of the most contentious election cycles, but wulls all of the most litigious, and we wanted to make sure that what got lost