Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Nevada voter data, state’s elections chief says

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The Justice Department has issued several subpoenas to Nevada’s secretary of state seeking voter information, marking another effort by the Trump administration to insert the federal government more directly into the administration of elections.

The office of Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, which oversees elections in the state, said Friday it received “seven voter-related DOJ subpoenas from the FBI over the last three months.”

Aguilar, a Democrat, slammed the DOJ’s move to seek the information, saying in a statement that the administration is overwhelming states ahead of the midterms.

“The federal administration is inundating election offices with investigations and questions ahead of the election, and making sweeping claims of election fraud to the public before any investigation is done,” Aguilar said. “We will continue standing up for Nevada voters and remain focused on running a safe, secure and transparent election this fall.”

It is unclear what information the Justice Department is seeking in the subpoenas. CNN has reached out to the DOJ and Aguilar’s office for more information.

The subpoenas follow a slew of baseless allegations of voter fraud from the Trump administration and subsequent crackdown efforts .

President Donald Trump still claims without evidence that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged, and the DOJ earlier this year searched the elections office in Fulton County , Georgia, which has long been at the centerpiece of Trump’s claims.

The Department of Homeland Security this week began a surge in its efforts to investigate voter fraud in nine states, including Nevada. The department previously pushed states to share their voter rolls for audit and has vowed to withhold grant funding from those that refuse to adopt a broad set of election reforms.

The administration on Thursday also asked the Supreme Court to give the US Postal Service sweeping power to withhold delivery of mail ballots , setting up a showdown at the high court less than two months before the midterms.

Earlier this summer, DHS announced that an audit of public voter rolls had identified more than 250,000 registered noncitizens in four states, including 16,000 in Nevada.

But behind closed doors, the department acknowledged to the state’s top election officials that it had “confirmed” just 185 of them, according to internal records reviewed by CNN . Another 6,200 were labeled “higher confidence matches” — but still required further vetting.

CNN’s Jeremy Herb, Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report.

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美国司法部已向内华达州州务卿发出多份传票，要求提供选民信息，这标志着特朗普政府再次试图让联邦政府更直接地介入选举管理。

内华达州州务卿弗朗西斯科·阿吉拉尔的办公室负责监督该州的选举，该办公室周五表示，在过去三个月里，他们收到了“联邦调查局发出的七份与选民有关的司法部传票”。

民主党人阿吉拉尔抨击了司法部索取信息的举动，他在一份声明中表示，政府正在中期选举前夕对各州施加压力。

阿吉拉尔表示：“联邦政府在选举前夕向各选举办公室发起大量调查和质询，并在任何调查进行之前就向公众大肆宣扬选举舞弊。我们将继续维护内华达州选民的权益，并致力于在今年秋季举行一场安全、可靠、透明的选举。”

目前尚不清楚司法部在传票中寻求哪些信息。CNN已联系司法部和阿吉拉尔办公室以获取更多信息。

在特朗普政府提出一系列毫无根据的选民欺诈指控并随后采取打击行动之后，这些传票被发出。

唐纳德·特朗普总统仍然毫无证据地声称，他在 2020 年大选中输给了乔·拜登，而司法部今年早些时候搜查了佐治亚州富尔顿县的选举办公室，该办公室长期以来一直是特朗普指控的核心。

本周，美国国土安全部加大力度调查包括内华达州在内的九个州的选民欺诈行为。此前，该部门曾敦促各州共享选民名册以供审计，并誓言将停止向拒绝采纳一系列全面选举改革方案的州提供拨款。

周四，政府还要求最高法院赋予美国邮政局广泛的权力，以扣留邮寄选票，这使得距离中期选举不到两个月的时间里，最高法院将出现一场对峙。

今年夏天早些时候，国土安全部宣布，对公共选民名册的审计发现，四个州有超过 25 万名登记在册的非公民，其中包括内华达州的 1.6 万名。

但据CNN查阅的内部记录显示，该部门私下向州最高选举官员承认，他们只“确认”了其中的185个。另有6200个被标记为“置信度较高”，但仍需进一步审查。

CNN 的 Jeremy Herb、Priscilla Alvarez、Tierney Sneed、Gabe Cohen、Hannah Rabinowitz 和 Fredreka Schouten 对本报告做出了贡献。