Apparently over the weekend (judged by my inbox and twitter feed), Instapundit linked to a TownHall report from March 2014, “Fraud: Local NBC Investigation Discovers Dozens of Illegal Voters in Florida.” Among other things, the Town Hall report says “Which brings us to a report that aired earlier this month on NBC’s local affiliate in Ft. Myers, Florida. WBBH-TV reporter Andy Pierrotti managed to track down dozens of local residents who were (a) both non-US citizens and (b) registered to vote in the swing state. Many of them had illegally voted in recent elections.”

But the report appeared on NBC 2 in Feb 2012, not March 2014.  So this is not news at all.  The NBC 2 site has these documents (and links to further reports) regarding the follow up on its investigation into non-citizens registered and voting.

Despite the fact that this is “old news,” is non-citizen voting a cause for concern?  Unlike impersonation fraud, which almost never happens, non-citizen voting does happen.  It is why I’ve called in the New York Times for voter rolls to be cleaned up to remove non-citizens (but not in purges just before an election, when the risk of disenfranchising eligible voters is too high). Non-citizen registration happens much more than non-citizen voting, and often it is the result of the registrant not understanding she is ineligible to register.  But it is enough of a problem that steps should be taken to clean up the voting rolls.