and dan gelber who has been both a federal prosecutor, a state of elected official, has again thought about these issues and on lots of levels -- most recently, at least in my knowledge, as a member of the voting rights commission which held an important hearing here in south florida this year. i think we have a wonderful mix of viewpoints and perspectives, both institutionally situated and to have a very fruitful conversation. i am going to start with a sketch of what we would like to talk about with respect to issues around voting rights. the first is an issue that comes to us most recently out of the 11th circuit. that is the recent decision in arcia v. florida secretary of state with respect to the legality of the 2012 purging of the voter rolls for purposes of purging noncitizens from the rolls. and the decision was decided under the national voter registration act, and it was decided that the -- the action violated the national voter registration act. i would like to invite our panelists to speak about efforts to maintain the legitimacy of the electoral rolls with respect to cit