According to data from the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections obtained by ThinkProgress:

- 1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as “non-citizens” and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote.

- Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship.

- Another 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county.

- The bulk of the remaining 1200 people have simply not responded yet to a letter sent to them by the Supervisor of Elections.

So at least 20 percent (and very likely more) of government-identified “non-citizens” in Miami-Dade county are actually citizens. And shockingly, the majority of them are Hispanic, Democrats and independent-minded.

I don't like the thought of non-citizens voting in our elections, but I like even less the fact that what appears to be the governor's "Enemies List" has a 20 percent (and possibly higher) error rate.

And, as Project Vote pointed out in their letter to the Secretary of State, the way your governor is going about all this is in violation of section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. So my opinion is that the governor has to stop what he's doing.

I'm glad I don't live in Florida.

-- Nephele

I'm glad I don't live in Florida.

On Friday, a lawyer with the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections issued a memo suggesting that all 67 counties stop the purge until the concerns raised by the Justice Department are addressed by the state or a court order. The association is a trade group for county election officials.

State election officials in Colorado and New Mexico, states with significant Latino populations, have also launched efforts to identify and purge suspected non-citizens from voter rolls. Justice Department officials declined to comment Friday on those efforts.