There's remote voting that we've had. And you know, what we've seen over time, and I think what the founders saw too is that The likelihood of an executive abusing his authority is greater than the likelihood of some, you know, narrow or very unlikely event happening. that we would need to reserve the special power for the executive. So we chose to give the power back to the people. And that's what we did. (06:13–06:27)
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