Sandego.net – The Justice Department has issued subpoenas directed at Nevada’s election office, pulling voter-level records straight from the state’s secretary of state. Seven separate subpoenas, routed through the FBI over roughly three months, request information from the office that administers ballots, registrations, and candidate filings across the Silver State. The move marks the latest escalation in a sustained federal effort to insert itself into the day-to-day operations of state-run elections — functions that, under the traditional constitutional division of labor, have long rested with governors, secretaries of state, and county clerks.

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, a Democrat, confirmed the subpoenas on Friday. His office stated it had received “seven voter-related DOJ subpoenas from the FBI over the last three months.” Neither the precise scope of the data sought — individual voter records, registration timestamps, or ballot-transport logs — nor the underlying investigative theory was disclosed. Both the…