next up, mr. wilcox. mr. wilcox: good morning. chairwoman. ranking member and members of the committee. i am wesley wilcox, supervisor of elections for marion county, florida and president of the supervisors of elections association. i have 30 years of experience in the election industry and i am certified. most of us here on the table and on the committee likely recall the 2000 general election. it was not our finest hour. in the 20 years since, florida and many other states have made great improvement, culminating in administrative accurate and successful 2020 election. florida offers no excuse by mail an option that has proven to be popular, especially during the pandemic. as mentioned earlier, one of the things that sets florida part like 2020 is the fact that vote by mail ballots are processed in the weeks prior to the election. this process allows us to publish nearly complete beau biden nail -- vote by mail totals on election night. if there is an issue with the signature we have time to contact the voter, providing them with an opport

mr. wilcox: thank you. we actually, as vote by males are returned to us we are able to validate the signatures. starting three weeks before the election, we will open the envelope and run the ballots themselves through the tabulation machines, processing them, without releasing any of the results. we know how many we have ran through so that on election night, when 7:00 p.m. goes through, the only vote by mail we are dealing with are those that literally were dropped at our door the last 15 or 20 minutes. >> so it allows us that you did on reporting results in a timely manner e. >> do you have it. a process where there's not a signature or do you reject that balance. >> as soon as we receive a vote by mail ballot, if there's any question concerning the signature we at that point attempt to notify the voter by postal. if we got an email address going to do that. letting them know the signature on their vote by mail ballots may be in question . >> then that processing is done at the bipartisan way just like e