some of the things of the life and look for all these you know my my level of expertise that ran the last time i won by thirty five after two or three weeks of counting provisionals asses the ballots some people call me the machines and you know bottom line is i was very happy because of my short experience and i don't know too many more times but i was very happy that things were really straight or no matter who won it was  you know we need our youth we need more involvement from our young generation and so with that very far has been whether thirty six years he's been our director of our elections office and he's here tonight to talk to you about some of the things that happened in the election on brains and we'll let him take off and and like that i would think larry we want to have an open discussion if you have questions you know i think we're all informal to do your thing and we'll see where we go i'm here to i want to learn myself the popular vote as i say are not going to work for them have some me but it's not really significant and what's the reason for a place of the word power in government and why they provided that power among the various agencies prayer which is because they didn't trust because of the past presidents where lectures that occurred in the united states and how the electoral college was involved and there were some very significant they didn't know what in the world they were talkin about and they were misleading the american public i had occasion i was invited by t j to do a taping professor from the university in pittsburgh well before we began the tape we three were discussing among ourselves what was more and more than four and the professor made a accounts of that time late seventeen hundreds early eighteen hundreds of our presidential elections were conducted presidential elections and ballots were cast sometime from how the presidents and vice presidents presidents were raised on the ballot everybody else is very game if you're a federal official if you're a federal employee if you're a federal worker but that's never been contested don't change their vote that's what's going on currently use me speedy it's all a direct result of our us constitution as  immediately after the conventions they all get together they get they form their own slates in the park about our reaction when there are several states in the union where that occurred where you see whether or not the constitutional requirements are met why they are a candidate receives a majority vote of at least determination but i'm going to pass out give you a list of presidential actions where this is happened in one specifically in eighteen seventy cents which had bor happened what happened with the southern states the states rights niall they are stored up as they were screaming before in the so where are their government were trying to make us do have any questions the members plus a majority vote so that's how the u s constitution those i guess i do i have this thank you for reminding me the book but you know there's so much information comes out there you also have to sit back and i think if it's someone tech shoot something if it's on baseball  it's always true so i think people just gravitate it's news they're trying to make news so i guess we have all make our own minds but i would say when you listen to a station you listen to what that will be another story just like it on the other side and so you gotta sit back and i think what this show me tonight by the way that i did know a lot of this by the way like this i'm not a history buff but it says that things that maybe history knowing history helps us make better choices in the future and i think what you've opened up is a lot of information there and i appreciate you coming doing that for the people but before we close off any other questions that you have then let's get your questions and i know we went through a lot yeah i have one ignorant i have another question about this when the electoral college was originally set up but it was a part of the reason was that the smaller states felt the more populous states would control the elections which to equalize that power you know folks want to take advantage of it so that you're more popular sees what we saw in a presidential election i have one