and postelection auditing. we actually just published a book as well on postelection auditing.re's a lot of innovation in that area, and many election jurisdictions are adopting them, and that's an amazing source of information for trying to understand how elections are being conducted in a jurisdiction and learning more about how elections can be improved in that jurisdiction. now, in terms of some issues that i just wanted to put on the table, issues that can be studied with data, one has already been discussed; litigation and legislation. 2012, in some ways, was this period of stability legislatively which i thought was really quite interesting. but it was a period where there was an enormous amount of litigation. and in the preelection period, the effect of that litigation, i think, is a big unknown. how does it affect voters? does it affect their confidence in the process? how does it affect poll workers and their confidence? 40 how does it affect the uncertainty election officials have about implementing elections? those are many things that we just don't know, and i do t

and postelection audit. which is published a book as well and postelection auditing.t of innovation in the area and are adept in on a sesame seed source of information for trying to understand how elections are conducted in a jurisdiction and learning how elections can be improved in the jurisdiction. in terms of issues i wanted to put on the table, issues studied with data. one is 30 been discussed. the dictation and legislation. 2012 was the stability legislatively, which i thought was quite interesting, but was also a period with an enormous amount of litigation

. >> host: november 2012, postelection, what did the 2012 elections clarify for you? >> guest: boy, that we as republicans need to do something to grow as a party. we're in danger of becoming a dinosaur the we don't -- if we don't figure out what people want out on the west coast, new england, around the great lakes. they're solid blue. and until we figure out what people want, we're not going to win again as a party. >> host: what do you think they want? >> guest: i think they are conservative, they think we should balance our budget, but i also don't think we should be at war everywhere all the time. i think they want a little more tolerant policy as far as putting people in prison for possession of marijuana. i think they'd like to see more local judges take care of that, less prison time. i'm not in favor of encouraging people to use marijuana, but i also don't think we should be putting people in jail for it either. >> host: now, this is your second book. we did a long form interview on your first book. you can watch that at booktv.org, just click rand paul into

to this point, the president has not indicated postelection that he thought that it used about addressing the mandatory spending issue. and we can't get there until he dies dies because without his leadership the matter what congress called both together in this regard it's not going to go forward. that to me is the challenge of the day and that has a very significant play on our national security, our ability to fund our military so they can engage where we needed to engage. we can't solve everything through drones. that has major implications on diplomacy and for nato to take other because it's right on the priority list and so that is the overarching issue. i say absent an intervening event like we had a 9/11, shaw priority became number one and everybody rallied around. trust me, we don't want that to be the reason, the impetus for change in our policy. we want to do everything we can possibly do to keep that intervening event from happening to cause us to be or is thinking. >> i got the idea for the lobby. all the groups that depend on the discretionary budget together in one giant l

i like to ask you a postelection question. is problematic for those people who are coming to the nation's first interaction with our country are being completely ignored. are we running the risk of inculcating a culture and am wondering we need to be concerned and how can we avoid this problem and solve this issue by not only strengthening our country, but hopefully avoiding further to my. >> i think whatever solution we find has to include control of the border and some kind of worker permit system, which is actually rigorously enforced. i happen to think people have a work permit that will not pass citizenship. at some point you have to be practical about what is doable. i don't blame people who show up here. we refuse to identify who you are and we refuse to please ourselves if we find out you're here legally. it's hard for me to say you're stupid for taking advantage of the richest country in the world. so i think to some extent, we have to reestablish the rule of law. the other point that i tried to make during the debate

fashion as well is critical to our business in seeing the economic imperative use quite a bit now postelection and that applies to all skills labor. so within our workforce, we have about 5000 employees in stem fields. a lot of that is within computer sciences. suppose these introduced for a while are starting to get momentum that look at the broad prison of that includes science, technology, engineering, math. with the iic science and not, go look at that another day. policy system in the process, make pieces were bitterly available and really make the united states a more simpler place in more business friendly place to keep foreign workers educated here as well as people founded by immigrants from an employment standpoint to make it a more user friendly place. boosting proposals that have come out this week. it's definitely immigration week. briefing the president's proposal, the senate gang of a proposal, which includes a high scope he said that, to get the attention it deserves in the broader discussion. a reasoned approach and looks at things, including things another legislation. you ma

we did some research this postelection. there's always been a sense of women will vote for women. will, women will vote for women if they really see that woman in a way she is accomplished, viable, and has the same belief system. it's more likely, women will vote for democrats first. there's an 18-point jennifer gap in the presidential election and went for president obama. we did some research and we asked this question. i thought this was an interesting turn of really thinking about the women voters. do you think it matters? does it matter we have women in there and why? we asked the question, we just elected a historic number of democratic women. due think it's going to matter. and 60% of the women said, yes, and only 8% said, no, probably won't matter at all. that's a significant change. part of our job here at emily's list -- i would argue our job in government -- is to -- and politics is to say it really does matter, and women's leadership is important for our society. and that's part of what we're doing. >> host: republican line, leo go ahead, canton, georgia. >> caller: th

to this point, the president has not indicated postelection that he is all that enthused about addressing the mandatory spending issue. and we cannot get there until he does because without his leadership, no matter what congress cobbles together, it will not go forward. so that, to me, is the challenge of the day, and that has a very significant place on national security's ability to fund our military. we cannot solve everything through jones -- drones. that has major implications on a diplomacy point and in particular because it is way down the priority list of american spending. so that is the overarching issue, and i say absent and intervening events, like we had a 9/11, which all of a sudden, that priority became number one and everybody rallied around. but trust me, we do not want that to be it. the impetus for changing our policy. we want to do everything we can possibly do to try and keep that from happening. that causes us to realign our thinking. >> senator, i got the idea for a new lobby. let's get all of the groups that depend on the discretionary budget together and have the

postelection on friday, novemb november 9, a six directive was issued extending the deadline for the counties in december 11. for the state december 11, was selected because that was the deadline to notify the winner of the electoral college so we couldn't go on that day. so everything worked backwards from there. and also as a result of these extensions, the deadline's request a recount or file an election contest were also extended. so that was our overall high level timeline of what we did. and a couple of things outside of that, that i just want to comment on, a texting till i spoke about. in new jersey we had 138,710 hits on that texting tool. new york had 58,500 hits on that tool, and the rest of the country at 46,211. new jersey was 57% of hits on a texting tool. and again, i give that credit to all the people that helped us get the word out and to the vip team for putting that together. and in addition to that we also utilized another part of the voting information project was that there are other lookups via google and microsoft. and i know they ended up having a total of 25