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“Our records do not support DHS’s claims, and DHS has still not provided evidence to change that,” Francisco Aguilar, the Democratic secretary of state in Nevada, said in a statement. 1.000

👤 Francisco Aguilar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada's Democratic Secretary of State, Francisco Aguilar, said in a statement that state records do not support DHS's claims and that DHS has not pro...

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Mr. Ott also said the use of so-called voter case numbers, which Nevada officials took to mean voter registration numbers, was imprecise. 1.000

👤 Mr. Ott 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada official Mr. Ott stated that using voter case numbers, which officials interpret as voter registration numbers, is an imprecise method for iden...

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This is because Nevada recently transitioned to a statewide voter-registration system that was previously run by counties. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Prior to September 2026, Nevada transitioned from a county-run voter registration system to a statewide one.

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“As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,” Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Secu... 1.000

👤 Greg D. Ott 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada Deputy Attorney General Greg D. Ott wrote in a letter to the DHS that state records indicate the 185 individuals flagged by the federal governm...

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The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the 6,218 individuals had “the highest number of matching attributes” to a potential noncitizen in their records, and that the smaller tran... 1.000

👤 Department of Homeland Security 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: The Department of Homeland Security stated that the list of 6,218 individuals it provided to Nevada had "the highest number of matching attributes" to...

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This is because Nevada recently transitioned to a statewide voter-registration system that was previously run by counties. 1.000

👤 Nick Corasaniti 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: As of September 2026, Nevada had recently transitioned to a statewide voter-registration system from a previous system run by individual counties.

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Using only “voter case numbers” 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. Ot... 1.000

👤 Mr. Ott 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Mr. Ott, a Nevada official, said that using only "voter case numbers" without other data could lead to the identification of multiple individuals.

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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. 1.000

👤 Nevada election officials 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada election officials stated that instead of a full list, the Department of Homeland Security sent them a smaller batch of roughly 6,000 individua...

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“The number also doesn’t tell us whether an individual was born in the United States, naturalized, derived citizenship through a parent, or holds any particular immigration status,” Mr. Ott wrote. 1.000

👤 Mr. Ott 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Immigration , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada official Mr. Ott wrote that a voter case number does not indicate an individual's citizenship or immigration status.

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“Each one of the 15,903 individuals identified should be carefully reviewed by your state to determine eligibility for voting in a federal election,” read a letter from the Department of Homeland Secu... 1.000

👤 Department of Homeland Security 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: A Department of Homeland Security letter sent on September 9, 2026, stated that each of the 15,903 individuals identified should be reviewed by Nevada...

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But Nevada election officials said in their letter that D.H.S. “has never provided Nevada with a list of 15,903 individuals.” 1.000

👤 Nevada election officials 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada election officials stated in a letter that the Department of Homeland Security never provided the state with a list of 15,903 individuals.

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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. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: In an August 2026 meeting with Nevada election officials, Department of Homeland Security leaders admitted that their initial claim of 15,903 potentia...

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But it hasn’t had a full manual review of each one.” 1.000

👤 Kimberley Vogt 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: DHS official Kimberley Vogt stated in an August 2026 meeting with Nevada officials that the list of 15,000 potential noncitizen voters had not undergo...

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“We’ve manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens.” 1.000

👤 Kimberley Vogt 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: In an email to Nevada officials following an August 2026 meeting, DHS official Kimberley Vogt wrote that the agency had "manually reviewed some of the...

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Mr. 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 cl... 1.000

👤 Greg D. Ott 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Nevada Deputy Attorney General Greg D. Ott stated that the Department of Homeland Security had not provided enough data for election officials to inve...

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In Nevada’s case, Mr. Mullin initially claimed that there were as many as 15,903 noncitizens on the voter rolls. 1.000

👤 Markwayne Mullin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin initially claimed there were as many as 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls.

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The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Nevada’s characterization was “false” and “the list of 185 were simply a subset of individuals that had gone through a rigorous manual revi... 1.000

👤 Department of Homeland Security 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Nevada’s characterization of its investigation was "false" and that the list of 185 individua...

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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... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: In August 2026, the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names it claimed were noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to reg...

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On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen. 1.000

👤 Nevada state officials 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: On September 22, 2026, Nevada state officials sent a letter to the federal government stating that every one of the 185 individuals on a DHS list were...

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Despite its claims, the Trump administration has not yet offered evidence of a single instance of a noncitizen on Nevada’s voter rolls. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Elections , Nevada

Simplified: As of September 24, 2026, the Trump administration had not offered evidence of a single instance of a noncitizen on Nevada’s voter rolls.

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