 The state Senate gave initial approval to a bill on Tuesday with significant changes to the state's elections. Republicans want to move forward with requiring the state to conduct signature matching of mail-in ballots to try to verify people are who they say they are. Burke County Republican Senator Warren Daniels says, Here we are this long in the future waiting on the data from the Board of Elections. So I think, you know, probably most of us thought this would be implemented for this election.