Nevada Rejects DHS List of 185 Alleged Noncitizen Voters, Says All Were Citizens
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 24
Nevada Rejects DHS List of 185 Alleged Noncitizen Voters, Says All Were Citizens
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 24
Summary
Nevada election officials told DHS that all 185 people on a federal list of alleged noncitizen voters were lawful U.S. citizens, flatly rejecting the agency’s claim of improper registration.
A Tuesday letter from Deputy Attorney General Greg Ott said state records supported every person’s citizenship and that DHS had provided “nothing of substance” to prove otherwise.
Nevada also said DHS still has not supplied enough underlying data to investigate the allegation and has not turned over a separate list of nearly 16,000 people it says may be noncitizens.
Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar accused federal officials of trying to intimidate election administrators and deter voters with unsupported fraud claims, underscoring the broader fight over rare noncitizen voting allegations.