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    "original_url": "https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/24\/us\/politics\/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html?emc=edit_na_20260924&nl=breaking-news&segment_id=227015",
    "parsed_content": "U.S. Immigration CrackdownICE Shooting in AustinD.H.S. LeaderNew Green Card PolicyFederal Agent in CourtICE\u2019s Rush for RecruitsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTFrom 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump\u2019s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.It was the Trump administration\u2019s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.Listen \u00b7 7:13 min Share full articleDespite its claims, the Trump administration has not yet offered evidence of a single instance of a noncitizen on Nevada\u2019s voter rolls. Above, people cast their votes in Las Vegas in 2024.Credit...Frederic J. Brown\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesBy Nick CorasanitiSept. 24, 2026, 11:18 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.\u201cAs for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,\u201d Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. \u201cYou have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise.\u201dMr. Ott also stated that D.H.S. officials had still not provided enough data for election officials to investigate their claims. Nor have they turned over the list of nearly 16,000 individuals they claim may be noncitizens.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cOur records do not support DHS\u2019s claims, and DHS has still not provided evidence to change that,\u201d Francisco Aguilar, the Democratic secretary of state in Nevada, said in a statement. \u201cInstead, DHS officials continue their attempts to intimidate election officials into compliance and deter voters with huge claims of fraud with no evidence. Repeating unsupported claims does not make them true.It was the Trump administration\u2019s latest stumble in a broad campaign to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting in American elections, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Nevada\u2019s characterization was \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201cthe list of 185 were simply a subset of individuals that had gone through a rigorous manual review process\u201d at the time of the last meeting between the two agencies.The back and forth began in July, when President Trump and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said they had identified more than 270,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states: Nevada, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Both men stated the claims as fact, yet letters sent to election officials in the four states in the days that followed indicated that the numbers may have been inflated. Each letter qualified Mr. Trump\u2019s concrete assertions with the phrase \u201cthere may be as many as.\u201d None offered actual proof of noncitizens on voter rolls.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn Nevada\u2019s case, Mr. Mullin initially claimed that there were as many as 15,903 noncitizens on the voter rolls. But in a meeting between Nevada election officials and the Department of Homeland Security last month, department leaders admitted that their initial claim was unsubstantiated. That prompted some pointed questions from Nevada election officials, according to a video recording of the virtual meeting.Sign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.\u201cSo what you\u2019re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted?\u201d asked C. Murphy Hebert, the chief deputy in the Nevada secretary of state\u2019s office.\u201cI probably wouldn\u2019t use the sentence, \u2018It hasn\u2019t been vetted,\u2019\u201d replied Kimberley Vogt, an official with Homeland Security. \u201cBecause definitely we\u2019ve done something with it to get down to 15,000. So I wouldn\u2019t say that. But it hasn\u2019t had a full manual review of each one.\u201dFollowing the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. \u201cI also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe\u2019ve manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens.\u201dNow, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cEach one of the 15,903 individuals identified should be carefully reviewed by your state to determine eligibility for voting in a federal election,\u201d read a letter from the Department of Homeland Security sent on September 9.But Nevada election officials said in their letter that D.H.S. \u201chas never provided Nevada with a list of 15,903 individuals.\u201d Instead, they said, the department sent them a smaller batch of roughly 6,000 individuals, identified only by what Homeland Security called a voter case number.\u201cD.H.S. still has not provided any additional verifiable information for the individuals it suggests are noncitizens,\u201d they wrote.The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the 6,218 individuals had \u201cthe highest number of matching attributes\u201d to a potential noncitizen in their records, and that the smaller tranche of voters \u201cwas at the request of Nevada. They wanted to start with a subset less than the 15,903 registrants DHS originally identified.\u201dNevada officials disputed that claim, and records reviewed by the Times did not show Nevada making that request.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Ott also said the use of so-called voter case numbers, which Nevada officials took to mean voter registration numbers, was imprecise.Using only \u201cvoter case numbers\u201d without any other information such as a name, date of birth, address, or another verifiable data point, could lead to the identification of multiple individuals, Mr. Ott said. This is because Nevada recently transitioned to a statewide voter-registration system that was previously run by counties. So an individual may have been assigned one number by a county in the past and a different number under the new statewide system.\u201cThe number also doesn\u2019t tell us whether an individual was born in the United States, naturalized, derived citizenship through a parent, or holds any particular immigration status,\u201d Mr. Ott wrote. \u201cA number that matches a voter record thus establishes only that a number exists in, or once existed in, a voter registration system.\u201dMr. Trump\u2019s demand for evidence of fraud has prompted multiple governmental efforts. The New York Times this month reported that hundreds of agents with Homeland Security had been temporarily pulled from their duties investigating international crimes and terrorism for a roughly three-week intensive search noncitizens on voter rolls. The methodology was criticized by Democrats as faulty and potentially illegal, and the Virginia attorney general wrote a letter demanding more information.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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