has had a nine-month delay in giving the national voter registration laws to the state, and now mr. haren appears to be taking the position that florida can't do anything after delay the giving florida the information it need to do. what can be done to solve this problem? >> well, the problem with the florida effort is that it runs counter to the national voter registration act, which says you can't do this within 90 days of an election. you can successfully do that which florida is trying to do as has been done and has been approved by the justice department in north carolina and georgia. they did it the right way. you -- the database that i think has, florida is requesting is not necessarily the answer to these problems. that database, my understanding, does not contain on its rolls or twhaith database people who were born in the united states. that database will, therefore, be flawed and could result in the exclusion of people from voting who are native-born americans. >> well, the state of florida has attempted to obtain this database for nine months. so that it could do its thing --