Nevada election chief reveals DOJ sent seven subpoenas over 'last three months'
Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar accused the Trump administration on Friday of flooding election offices with demands ahead of November after his office confirmed it received seven voter-related Justice Department subpoenas over the “last three months.”
TL;DR
- Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar's office received seven Justice Department subpoenas for voter information in the last three months.
- Aguilar criticized the Trump administration for "inundating" election offices with investigations and making public claims of fraud.
- The subpoenas were issued after the DOJ lost a civil case seeking Nevada's unredacted voter-registration list.
- The DOJ has pursued similar legal actions against 29 states, losing most of them.
- This follows other instances of federal agencies seeking election records in battleground states like Georgia and Arizona.