Report Reveals Trump Admin Still Can’t Prove Its Claim 15,903 Noncitizens Were Registered to Vote In Nevada

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The Department of Homeland Security has been unable to substantiate its claim nearly 16,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Nevada more than one month after it was alleged, the New York Times reported Friday.

The Trump administration claimed exactly 15,903 noncitizens in Nevada were part of a group of 278,000 who were allegedly registered in four states. “But during a meeting last week with state election administrators, Homeland Security officials said they had identified just 185 potential noncitizens in the state so far, according to emails as well as recordings of the meeting obtained by The New York Times,” the newspaper noted.

In the same meeting, “federal officials told Nevada that the nearly 16,000 they had originally identified represented “the ceiling” of potential noncitizens,” the Times also wrote.

But the list that officials ultimately shared with the state is “incomplete” and is “nearly impossible to verify” because it has no names on it.

Phantom noncitizen voters have been behind President Donald Trump’s impetus to urge Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require all voters to offer proof of citizenship when they register to vote and to provide a photo ID at the ballot box. This is despite the fact that citizenship is already a core requirement of voting.

In an interview on Real America’s voice, Trump appeared to suggest he may be able to apply new voting restrictions this year with or without the SAVE America Act.

After anchor Wayne Allyn Root encouraged Trump to go around Congress in order to pass the legislation, the president responded, “Let me just say that stranger things have happened. OK, I’ll leave it at that.”

The interview aired two weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said the odds of passing the SAVE America Act are “basically zero.”

DeSantis wrote on X, “I think the chance the Senate actually passes a real SAVE Act before the August break is basically zero. Happy to be wrong about this but I don’t think I am.”

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