Nevada election officials say they reviewed 185 records DHS sent them after flagging the people as non-citizens, and confirmed all 185 were US citizens. A DHS spokesperson did not say Friday whether the department still considered them non-citizens.
In July, Donald Trump said DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters said the total could be as high as 278,000, including up to 15,903 in Nevada. In August, DHS told Nevada officials it had confirmed only 185 non-citizens and still had more than 14,000 records to review. On Friday, the department described the 185 as a manually reviewed subset and said its list also included 6,218 people with the strongest matches to DHS records.
Nevada deputy attorney general Greg Ott said DHS had not shared enough information to explain its matches, providing only voter ID numbers rather than names, addresses or other matched data. He said Nevada voter numbers can be linked to different records over time and do not establish citizenship. Separately, Votebeat reported Pennsylvania officials challenged DHS’s claim of up to 14,576 non-citizens; election chief Al Schmidt said DHS representatives indicated they lacked “high confidence” in that figure.
