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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine

DHS confirms just 185 non-citizens on Nevada voter rolls after claiming there were thousands more

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Trump claimed last month that 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote across four states. Photograph: Ronda Churchill/Reuters

About a month after alleging Nevada had as many as 16,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials admitted they had confirmed that only 185 were actually non-citizens, according to records obtained by the Guardian.

In a primetime TV address on 16 July, Donald Trump claimed that a DHS review had found about 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in four states.

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