DOJ Subpoena Targets Nevada Voter Data

The Justice Department has issued a subpoena to the office of Cisco Aguilar, Nevada’s secretary of state and chief election officer, seeking voter-related information. The request arrived amid a broader federal push to investigate alleged voter fraud ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, with the subpoena delivered by FBI agents over the past three months.

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President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of widespread voter fraud have spurred the administration to deploy hundreds of investigators nationwide. While decades of research show voter fraud to be exceptionally rare, the federal effort has intensified, demanding private voter data from multiple states. Roughly two dozen states have already filed lawsuits challenging the administration’s actions, arguing that election regulation is a constitutional responsibility of the states and Congress, not the executive branch.

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Cisco Aguilar confirmed that his office has received seven voter-related subpoenas from FBI agents in the last quarter. U.S. Attorney Sigal Chatta, who oversees the Nevada office and is known for supporting Trump’s election-integrity narrative, has not publicly commented on the specific subpoenas.

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• Seven voter-related subpoenas received by the Nevada secretary of state’s office.

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• Hundreds of federal investigators deployed nationwide to probe alleged fraud.

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• Roughly two dozen states have sued the administration over similar actions.

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• Less than 60 days remain before the midterm elections.

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• “The right to vote is written clearly in the Constitution, and we cannot take that right away without the highest confidence of a person’s ineligibility,” — Mr. Aguilar

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