just last week, a man pled guilty in alamogordo to trafficking humans from pakistan and elsewhere through new york, and into our state. a touch-and-go, to grab our license, to grab our government issued i.d. card and leave. to where? who knows. for what purpose? who knows. over and over the same story. the fraud, the trafficking, the security threats. i want to thank independent representative andy nunez for sponsoring the bill to repeal this law. thank you, sir. and i want to thank the democratic house judiciary committee chairman al park for working with us last session to cut through and tone down the rhetoric, and to develop a compromise. a bill that does not give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants but does allow foreign nationals who are here legally on a work or student visa to get that driver's license. that was a good compromise, and it cleared the house last year with bipartisan support. this issue has been debated thoroughly. the desire of new mexicans is clear, and it's time to vote to repeal the law. i'm also asking the legislature to work with me to crack down on repeat

in 1986, we were looking at preference voting and how it operates in places like alamogordo, new mexico, and how it impacted disenfranchised communities, whether ethnic or socioeconomic. that would be of interest to me. >> that is part of what i have been collecting data on, figuring out how we do that. in san francisco, unless you do a language-specific ballot, -- it is hard when you have a bunch of english pellets. in san francisco, there are corners of areas with a higher density of a certain population. it is not guaranteed all the people in that area are of that ethnicity. we are trying to figure out how we look at that fairly, so we are not attending the system by bringing other voters because the happen to live in the same neighborhood as a different ethnic group. the other thing i wanted to bring up on this matter -- i have also been listening to what the board of supervisors have been having some hearings on, on the election process. i am going to bring in some of the questions being asked by some other members of the board that may not be on this commission, looking at whether