joining us now is veronica degraffenreid from north carolina state board of elections. thank you so much for your time tonight for helping us understand this. >> absolutely. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. i know that the issue of challenging votes and voter registration obviously comes with a lot of political and partisan implications. i also understand that your job is the epitome of nonpartisan, i want to make that clear from the outset. i know you approach this from a totally nonpartisan perspective. i have to ask you if this has happened before. in the past have there been outside groups challenging tens of thousands of voter registrations in your state this close to an election? >> no. this is a novel approach. certainly most voter challenges deal with residency issues and we've never had a group come in before and challenge these number of voters at one time. >> obviously you have to respond to these challenges now, because they've been put forth to your office. what else would you and your office be doing if you were not devoting these resources and this