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There is virtually NO impediment to non-citizens registering to vote and voting. A couple of years ago, a college student acquaintance of mine recounted the story of a foreign student in her dorm, who was startled to receive a voter registration card in the mail. She certainly hadn't applied for one, and couldn't imagine how she'd happened to get one. With a little investigation, it became clear. She had gotten a driver's license and the state (Pennsylvania) has "motor-voter" in which people can register to vote simultaneously with getting a driver's license just by checking a box. Problem is, this young lady HADN'T registered to vote. Bigger problem is, apparently the staff of the driver's license bureaucracy automatically registers everyone who gets a driver's license (they're union employees, so it's no surprise that they've been instructed to check off that little box if the license applicant "forgot").

I really think vote security is going to be a HUGE issue very soon, and the battle is likely to be a bloody one (to some extent literally).