for more, we go to alpine, texas, where we're joined by susan hays, who is special counsel to harrisounty, texas, on election matters. she has worked on election laws in texas for over 20 years. welcome to democracy now! so let's talk about this. the texas supreme court hands down a decision, says these nearly 127,000 votes -- ballots can be counted. explain what was set up to enable people to vote and what it means going before the federal court today. >> first, thank you for having me on today. harris county has set up 10 separate drive-thru locations, none of them are the enormous mental framing and tent structures. one is in a parking garage at the toyota center, sports arena. voters hold up, greeted by election workers just as they might be at a walking polling place. there asked to turn off their ce phone, not converse while voting. their ids are checked. texas requir a voter id. they come into the polling station, the vote they sign a roster just as they would an in person voting pls of voting machine is attached to a cable, handed into the voters window and they vote from the