Nevada removed almost 177,000 voter registrations last year
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Last year, Nevada removed almost 177,000 voters from the rolls as part of regular voting list maintenance. The state now has more than 2.1 million registered voters, according to data just published for 2025.
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said that during every election cycle, about 30 percent of voters move or change their status.
"Because Nevada is such a transient state, probably more than any other state in the Union," he said, "we have a responsibility to make sure that our voter rolls are current and that we make sure our elections are safe and secure."
The National Voter Registration Act says people may be removed from voter rolls if they pass away, move, or do not respond to address confirmation and remain inactive for two federal elections. Last year, Nevada counties sent out more than 157,000 notices to flagged voters asking them to confirm or update their address and inform the county if they moved or would like to have their registration canceled. More than 138,000 did not respond, meaning they were marked inactive and will no longer receive mail-in ballots.
Voters can contact their county to re-activate their registration.
Right now, Aguilar is fighting a lawsuit from the Trump administration seeking voters' personal information.
"That is a non-starter for me," he said. "The federal government should not be requesting the private information of Nevada voters. They do not need the Social Security numbers. They don't need the driver's licenses of our registered voters. It's my job as the chief elections officer in Nevada to protect that data."
The feds claim they want to compare state data with federal databases to make sure no undocumented or otherwise ineligible people are on the rolls. Recently, courts in Oregon, California and Michigan have denied the federal government's right to this information.
