If you ask Nate personally to describe his job, he does the usual thing academics do.

So I'm a law professor at Stanford. I'm also director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.

He gives you the full resume. He works in voting rights, campaign finance, and then he gets to the good stuff.

I'm often appointed by courts, in particular, to resolve redistricting controversies.

Yeah, you get this cool title, like special master a lot of the time, right?

That's true. I've been a special master on several occasions.

It's not a title that wins me any credibility at home, but it's definitely, you know,

something that is not a title you get in your normal course of things.

You know how I describe you when I'm, if I had to describe what you do?

I describe you as the election plumber,

like the guy who goes into states with broken electoral systems and like tries to figure out

what pipe is leaking. That's good. Yes. I'll use that. I wanted to call up the election

plumber because as coronavirus spreads across the country,

there's this one question I just keep asking myself.

How are we all supposed to vote for president in a few months?

A week ago, Nate was watching as primary voting stalled out in Ohio after the governor ended up in a legal tug of war.

Jake Royal, you're there. Will people be able to vote tomorrow?

Tanya, the short answer to that is no.

Ohio's health commissioner had to weigh in at the last minute, make the final call.

Some election workers say they got a robocall two minutes before they were scheduled to report

to their voting location to set things up tonight.

And that was at seven.

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