Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the state’s election process is an effort to intimidate officials and suppress voting ahead of the November midterm election.
“This is all an effort to really force Nevada to fold,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal Wednesday. “But unfortunately, we’re not going to fold in any way whatsoever until a judge demands that I have to conform.”
In recent weeks, the Department of Homeland Security singled out Nevada as one of four states where it said a preliminary review found more than 250,000 potential noncitizens on voter rolls.
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