The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested Nevada hand over its voter roll data and other voting information related to President Donald Trump’s March executive order that sought to overhaul the nation’s election system by requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that several states had received these requests, and that Nevada was among those asked for the public voter roll information.

The Nevada Secretary of State's Office confirmed to The Indy that it had also received a DOJ request for an agreement to share certain information on voters who were targeted by the executive order. The Post did not report that Nevada was among the states to receive this request.

SOS declined to say the status. The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s the latest sign that national Republicans are seeking changes to how Nevada runs elections, building off of legal challenges filed last year.

Ahead of the 2024 election, the Republican National Committee — sometimes alongside the Nevada Republican Party and Trump’s campaign — filed four lawsuits related to Nevada’s voter rolls and mail ballot laws. Three of the suits were dismissed, while one remains outstanding. Two of the dismissed suits are being appealed. 

A conservative law firm filed two lawsuits (which both failed) challenging the eligibility of voters based on their addresses. A Nevada-based conservative group also challenged more than 30,000 Nevadans’ voter registrations and filed three lawsuits to require the challenges to be investigated, but those were eventually withdrawn.

Republicans have long argued that Nevada’s election system is potentially rife with fraud, making specious claims about mail voting irregularities and that noncitizens are illegally voting en masse, among other accusations. State officials have repeatedly defended the security of Nevada elections.

Trump issued a significant March executive order calling for a sweeping overhaul of federal elections by requiring proof of citizenship to vote and that all mail ballots be received by Election Day. 

The order doubled down on exaggerated claims of mass voter fraud by arguing that the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections.” Noncitizen voting is already illegal in the U.S. and is prosecuted, while fraud in mail voting is extremely rare and is also prosecuted. Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, has called the order “federal overreach.”

Although courts have temporarily blocked key provisions of that order, the request from DOJ attorneys focuses on sharing certain voter information with federal officials, as The Post reported. 

The other request asks for Nevada’s statewide voter registration list, which is already public record. It also asks for descriptions of the state’s voter registration processes, including information on how ineligible voters are removed from the voter rolls, security measures to prevent unauthorized access to voter registration lists and the process to verify voter registration applications.

There appears to be more legal justification for this request, as the DOJ is allowed to see much of this information under the Help America Vote Act, a 2002 federal law that set certain election administration standards for states and provided funding for the creation of statewide voter registration systems.