Earlier today I posted this item about how Florida has identified only “several” noncitizens from its latest voter purge attempts, and I linked to an earlier blog post of mine in which I questioned the origin and veracity of von Spakovsky’s statement that state officials had claimed to have removed 50 non-citizen voters from the rolls.

Today I received an email from von Spakovsky in which he pointed to this NPR report from a few days before my original post.  It includes the following passage: “Republican Gov. Rick Scott says the state has an obligation to make sure that ineligible voters don’t cast ballots. State officials say they’ve already removed about 100 noncitizens from the rolls and that they have evidence about half of them voted in the past.”  So von Spakovksy reasonably could have cited the 50-voter figure based upon this report.

I have serious doubts about the state’s earlier numbers, given the Dan Smith analysis and the new NPR report linked in my last post. But that’s besides the point of this post—on this claim, von Spakovksy appears to have accurately relied upon a state report and I stand corrected.

Incidentally, this is the first email I’ve received from von Spakovsky since he stonewalled me on the 1984 grand jury report.