Thank you.
It's a great question, and I fully agree.
I was looking up some numbers prior to our meeting, and I wanted to find out the number of special ballot votes in the last election. The interesting thing is that—this is perhaps a very boring thing to mention—the methodology of how you count these things matters.
Sometimes there's some data out there to actually measure voters from overseas and exclude the military. Sometimes you find data that includes the overseas military as well as other overseas voters. Obviously, it makes a big difference to be able to separate those two groups or to count them together.
This is just one example from when I myself was trying to find certain data, and I realized that, oh, I can't use this particular statistic because this includes both the military and other voters, but this other one includes only one of the two groups. My larger point here is that it would be really great if that kind of data, the more specialized data, was actually made public, so that we would actually know what the differences in the groups were, because, obviously, once you include the military and diplomats, that changes how you can actually use that data and what you are actually counting.
