DHS Claims of 250,000 Noncitizen Voter Registrations Face Nevada Scrutiny

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that the department had identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states – Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California. The department’s preliminary Nevada count stood at 15,903 names. A recording of the August 13 meeting shows DHS officials had confirmed only 185 of those registrants as noncitizens through manual review, while 6,200 were labeled “higher confidence matches” but remained unverified. More than 14,000 cases were still unresolved, and officials warned that some matches could be naturalized citizens whose immigration records were outdated.

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During the August 13 meeting, C. Murphy Hebert, chief deputy of the Nevada secretary of state’s office, asked whether the 15,000 figure had been vetted. State officials noted that DHS had not provided the full list, citing concerns about inaccurate records, and that the “higher confidence” matches required further investigation before the November midterms.

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Secretary Mullin framed the data as “hard evidence” supporting President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voting, emphasizing that “numbers … don’t lie.” The DHS “election integrity” effort is led by Heather Honey, a Trump-aligned researcher promoted to senior counselor; she described DHS as an “open book” acting in “very good faith” and urged Nevada to expedite its review.

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• “We’ve identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states,” — Markwayne Mullin, homeland security secretary

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• “One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” — Markwayne Mullin, homeland security secretary

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• “So what you’re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted?” — C. Murphy Hebert

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• “We’re going to manually review to be sure that it is not someone’s dad or someone’s son – that it is that person,” — Kimberley Vogt, who leads a fraud division at DHS

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• “Weeks after the President held a national, primetime speech making sweeping claims regarding noncitizens and the security of our elections, DHS representatives informed our office that the numbers that were provided to the public are preliminary and that there is not high enough confidence to be able to share the full dataset with Nevada officials,” — Nevada Secretary, of State Cisco Aguilar

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