john nicholson at the british embassy. so -- >> i can't hear you. >> john nicholson at the british embassy. the system we use is very different from what's been described by the panel. it is paper and pencil, hand-counting, and sort of the equivalent voter books are sort of printed out and scored off when you vote, standardization across the country. now, clearly, that doesn't eliminate the all possibility of voter fraud, and there are historical examples, but i wonder -- >> how many contests are on your ballot? >> sorry? >> how many choices does a voter have to make? >> in a general election, it's one choice. >> okay. >> now, i wonder if you are designing a system from scratch, you had a free hand, what you would design at this point, given what you've been talk being? >> that opens up my question about the los angeles county vote system, if you want to talk about that. >> absolutely. so, there are a couple of counties in the u.s. that have been so fed up with -- and the united states is the only country that seems to thi