DOJ issued seven FBI subpoenas for Nevada voter data amid its separate court fight for the same records

On September 3, 2026, the Nevada Secretary of State's office confirmed to The Nevada Independent that it had received seven Department of Justice subpoenas, issued through the FBI, seeking voter-related information over the preceding three months. The office said it could provide no further detail about what the subpoenas sought. The disclosure came about three weeks after U.S. District Judge Anne R. Traum dismissed a separate DOJ lawsuit, filed in December 2025 after DOJ first requested the state's voter data in June 2025, that had sought Nevada's complete, unredacted voter registration list, including voters' driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. Judge Traum found the list was not the type of record subject to disclosure under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 provision DOJ invoked, and that DOJ had failed to show the factual basis and purpose its demand required -- the administration's 22nd consecutive district-court loss in a nationwide campaign to obtain states' voter rolls. DOJ has since appealed that dismissal to the Ninth Circuit.

The subpoenas surfaced alongside a broader federal push targeting Nevada's voter rolls: in July 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin publicly claimed DHS analysis had found as many as 15,903 noncitizens registered to vote in the state, a figure DHS later told Nevada officials it had confirmed only 185 of; and beginning September 1, 2026, Nevada was among nine states where DHS directed Homeland Security Investigations to open a coordinated criminal voter-fraud investigation surge.

Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar has previously characterized the administration's push for Nevada's unredacted voter data as an attempt "to intimidate us into turning over protected voter data." The disclosure came roughly two months before the November 2026 midterm elections.