not for russell pierce, not for his opponent obviously, but for this third candidate who they found. she is a local woman with no political history or experience at all. she's a naturalized citizen from mexico. russell pearce's brother is a justice of the peace locally and therefore not to get involved with any campaigning at all. brother lester went out campaigning anyway with his daughters, with russell pearce's nieces to collect signatures. they were not campaigning for russell pearce. they were campaigning for this third candidate they found. olivia cortez. to get her on the ballot. in addition to that remarkably charitable effort by the russell pearce family, the mysterious cortez campaign also somehow found itself with enough money, enough funding to pay professional signature gatherers to go out alongside russell pearce's nieces in order to get olivia cortez on the ballot. >> i was told that if people were supporters of mr. pearce, to tell them go ahead and sign this, that this will help his chances. >> so the idea was to dilute or divert the vote? >> yeah. >> by running a dive