- Well, it's not something I campaigned on or even expected.

It was sort of a decision, well, it was not sort of, it was a decision that was made by the General Assembly.

They had the authority to delegate duties to members of the Council of State.

They saw fit to move that authority over here to the Board of Elections.

So we got to work.

I mean, the Legislature tells you something to do, we do it, we got to work.

I think the view we take is to manage the office correctly.

It's all about management.

And again, I do think it fits in that wheelhouse of, you know, non-partisan.

I had an oath of non-partisanship, which is why we're looking to modernize the election system.

David, our elections computer system was built in 1998 when email was something new, right?

So this has got to be something that we take and move forward, we just have to.

So I put 12 Republicans and 12 Democrats on a commission to help form and inform the state board and make some determinations of what do the people want, and let's get a computer system and let's get a system for running elections that everybody can get behind.

So that there isn't any of this back and forth between parties on something that is so fundamental to North Carolinians and Americans and people of both political parties.

We wanna get that right.