Nevada Says FBI Subpoenaed Its Voter Data Seven Times. California Reports None.

Homeland Security claimed 16,000 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls, then told state officials it had confirmed 185.

Seven voter-related subpoenas from the U.S. Justice Department have reached Nevada's top election office in the past three months. The office of Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar disclosed the count in a statement, first reported by CNN on September 5, 2026. What the subpoenas seek isn't clear.

The nearest edge of this for Los Angeles is the mailbox. California mails more ballots than any other state, and the administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to give the U.S. Postal Service broad power to withhold delivery of mail ballots, a request made less than two months before the midterm election.

Aguilar, a Democrat who oversees Nevada's elections, said his office had received "seven voter-related DOJ subpoenas from the FBI over the last three months."

He tied his objection to the calendar. "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," he said in the statement, the outlet reported.

Seven subpoenas in three months is a cadence, not a single request. That's what Aguilar's statement leans on: the volume of federal questions arriving while his office prepares for the fall vote.

The subpoenas aren't the only federal pressure on state election offices. The Department of Homeland Security has begun a surge of voter-fraud investigations in nine states, Nevada among them. The department has also pushed states to turn over their voter rolls for audit and said it would withhold grant money from states that refuse a broad set of election changes.

The numbers behind that campaign have moved. Homeland Security said this summer that it had checked public registration lists in four states and flagged more than 250,000 noncitizens as registered to vote. It put Nevada's share of that at 16,000. Internal records reviewed by CNN show the department later told the state's top election officials it had confirmed 185 of them, with another 6,200 labeled higher-confidence matches that still required vetting.

President Donald Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden was rigged, the outlet reported. The Justice Department searched the elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year.

California's secretary of state, Shirley Weber, hasn't reported receiving subpoenas of the kind Nevada describes.

On the mail-ballot question, the administration asked; the Supreme Court hasn't ordered anything yet. Aguilar's office says it's staying focused on running this fall's election in Nevada.

Source: cnn.com, retrieved September 6, 2026.