Nevada officials identified 185 possible non-citizens on their voter list during meetings with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim departs from the passage: the post attributes the 185 figure to DHS, which 'met with' Nevada and 'stood by' 185 possible non-citizens, not to Nevada officials identifying them. The sources agree that DHS confirmed or identified the 185 cases, and Nevada officials disputed that, saying their records showed all 185 were citizens.
What was said
… We need to look at the actual record." To date, DHS provided neither to any of those states. But what they have done is had meetings, which they probably thought were off the record but weren't, with Pennsylvania and Nevada. And Nevada allegedly had 16,000 or so non-citizens on their list, according to DHS, and when DHS met with them, all they could all they would even be willing to stand by is 185 possible non-citizens. That's just barely over 1% of their claims. In Pennsylvania, they wouldn't stand by any of their data when they were asked. So even the administration itself is admitting there's nothing there. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Multiple sources say DHS, not Nevada officials, identified or confirmed the 185 cases during its meetings with Nevada election officials, which conflicts with the claim's attribution to Nevada officials.[1][2][3][4]
Context. Nevada officials disputed the 185 figure, stating their records indicated all 185 were citizens and that DHS provided nothing substantive to suggest otherwise.[1][3][4][5]
Context. DHS described 185 as the manually confirmed subset of a roughly 16,000 list it called a 'ceiling', with another 6,218 higher-confidence matches still requiring review, and a DHS spokesperson later said at least 2,000 names were noncitizens.[1][2][4][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Seven subpoenas engulf Nevada election chief in key midterm battlereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2DHS concedes noncitizen voter numbers it touted are inflated ...npr.org · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3Inside the Trump administration’s lists of alleged noncitizen ...cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, context
- 4Nevada says 185 people flagged by DHS were citizensreviewjournal.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 5DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizensdemocracydocket.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6DHS: Nevada has 185 confirmed noncitizen votersyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
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- The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that 185 individuals on the Nevada voter rolls were not U.S. citizens after a manual review.Mixed
- Nevada state officials determined that the 185 individuals flagged by the Department of Homeland Security as non-citizens were actually U.S. citizens.True
- The Department of Homeland Security initially informed Nevada election officials that there were 15,903 non-citizens on the state's voter rolls.True
- In July 2026, Department of Homeland Security officials informed Nevada officials that they had identified nearly 16,000 non-citizens on the state's voter rolls.True
- The Department of Homeland Security identified 16,000 ineligible people on Nevada voter rolls, but could not demonstrate that any were ineligible.Mixed