New Actor: Aguilar demands DHS evidence on alleged 16,000 Nevada noncitizen registrations

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin demanding evidence behind the claim that nearly 16,000 noncitizens may be on Nevada’s voter rolls. He said DHS had not identified any of the people it flagged, disclosed its data sources, or explained how it matched Social Security numbers to state voter records that do not contain them. “We want to better understand your claims that thousands of alleged noncitizens are on Nevada’s voter rolls, again, none of which you have identified,” he wrote.

The letter asks whether DHS used exact or approximate matches and whether it relied on artificial intelligence. It also asks how DHS accounted for common names, shared addresses, data‑entry errors, and people who later naturalized, and whether any case‑by‑case review was done or an error rate assigned.

In a prior notice to the state, DHS said a preliminary review of publicly available registration records found as many as 15,903 suspected noncitizens in Nevada. It also claimed 8,576 registrants matched people in its immigration files by name, date of birth, address, and Social Security number, and asked Nevada to confirm by July 30 that it would collaborate. Aguilar said Nevada already requires a citizenship attestation under penalty of perjury and warned that flawed matching could wrongly sweep up eligible, often naturalized, voters.

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