let me talk briefly about the nvra because the enforcement of the requirements of the nvra also remains a very important priority for us, for us and for all of us in this room. because as you know, states covered by the nvra must follow it's environments to make -- disability offices and through the mail and we have for the first time i believe in our thing's history last year, may we had heart a lot of deback, secretaryings of state and other stake holders that it would be useful to have a guidance document that can serve as a how-to document for everybody on noncome plinsz. we pay a lot of attention to the eac data. the eac's nvra report is very, very helpful in enabling us to figure out where we should indei indiai indiai indeed focus its examination. as you know, secretary 7 requires that voter registration be made availability among other places at state offices providing public assistance or disability services. one of the lawsuits involves rhode island and the other involves louisiana. in the louisiana case, i want to discuss the results because the results have indeed been remar

hopefully because it's an nvra case in your state doesn't mean it deals with your job and what you're doing, but i think it's certainly something you will see happening this year very shortly. thank you. >> thank you both, gentlemen, for your presentation, and i know they're ready to field any questions that you may have. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i just had more of a comment than a question to address, a few of the things that mr. crossly had talked about on especially being with reducing in-person early voting. i justment wanted to state for record we did that in georgia, we went from 41 days to 21. it included a mandatory saturday voting which he we haven't had before. the reason that the legislature took that up was because the counties were complaining about the cost of having to have three poll workers in the early voting locations. there was hardly anybody coming in those first two or three weeks, and the legislature listened to them. we had a very strong bipartisan vote in the house, and i think that's important for people to realize. i know as i campaigned around the state

and the -- the section 7 enforcement that's happened under the social service provision of the nvra is one where i think there has been more data sort of consistently bearing out that its had an effect at registering more voters. so to the extent that there's data that supports the case, i would stand with you on that question. >> we're going to have to wrap up, but one quick last question, ruth. >> thank you. ruth johnson, michigan. one of the problems that we have right now is that the federal government required us at our dmv, which we do through the secretary of state's office, that we would ask everyone if they'd like to register to vote when they came in to get a driver's license or personal i.d. they did that, and we have thousands of noncitizens now registered to vote. my question is, how do we get them off? we've had social security, homeland security, i.c.e. and all refuse to help us, and they're the only ones that have that information. on a quick note, a man from indonesia voted because that is in indonesia the law. he didn't try to commit any malice. he just didn't know be