did you ask ray larson before you did that?the other night jerry abramson said you check with the prosecutors. i looked at the press and ray larson hadn't been consulted on that one. >> shall we go to that one? >> partial pardon or voter registration rights. >> okay. in the four years i've been governor i haven't pardoned anybody. and i know that what people think of as a pardon is that you let somebody out of jail. you wipe their record out as if they've never had one. and we've never done that. not one time. what we do is the same thing that every governor before me has done, and that is a process to where once a person is served his time, and once they're served all their parole and probation, once they've paid all their fines, then if they apply to get some of their civil rights back, voting rights, that kind of thing, then we review, we make sure with corrections that all of that is correct, and then we check with the prosecutor. that's our process. and if the prosecutor doesn't have any objection, then we restore somebody

i looked at the press and say ray larson hadn't been consulted on that? >> do you want to go that?r voter registration rights? >> in the four years i've been governor i haven't pardoned anybody. and i know that what people think of as a pardon you is let somebody out of jail, you wipe their record out as if they never had one and we've never done that. not one time. what we do is the same thing that every governor before me has done and that is a process once a person has served his time and once they're served all their parole and probation, once they paid all their fines, then if they apply to get some of their civil rights back, voting rights, that kind of thing, then we review, we make sure with corrections that all of that is correct and then we check with the prosecutor. that's our process. and if the prosecutor doesn't have any objection, then we restore somebody's voting rights because it's a rehabilitation kind of thing. the case that i think senator williams is talking about early on in the administration, we went through that process, we sent a letter out and, you know,