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(The Center Square) - The list of noncitizen voters in Nevada has fallen to 185 from a potential list of nearly 16,000 after revisions from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the department noted the 185 figure strictly refers to those who were manually reviewed during a labor-intensive process and that another 6,218 were "high confidence" or likely noncitizen voters that would be reviewed. Last month, DHS announced a list of 250,000 potential noncitizen voters from four states - Nevada, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But it has since revised its number of noncitizen voters to 185 individuals in later private communications with the Secretary of State’s Office. The reversal comes amid wider efforts to question voter rolls and systems across the country ahead of November’s midterm elections. “As President Trump announced last night, DHS has identified over 250,000 potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in just 4 U.S. states,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a July 17 press release. “Only Americans should be electing American leaders.” Mullin told The Center Square that noncitizen voters is a serious concern. “We’ve put these governors on notice. States must work with us to ensure free, fair, and honest elections." The DHS report said that between California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania, over 250,000 noncitizens may be registered to vote. Of those, 15,903 were in Nevada, according to DHS. But a Nevada official criticized the DHS report for creating fear with inaccurate information. “It's not legitimate. It's not accurate. It's not done with the true intention of trying to create a better process or a better system,” Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told The Center Square. “What it's doing is designed to scare voters. It's designed to create chaos. It's designed to allow the president to choose his voters rather than voters choosing the elected.” Earlier this month in a private Aug. 13 meeting between staff members for the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office and DHS, DHS staff explained that the list of 15,903 potential Nevada noncitizen voters was made by doing a preliminary comparison of the Nevada voter roll to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, adding the figure was a "ceiling" for noncitizen voters in the state. The Secretary of State's Office said it recorded a video of the Aug. 13 meeting and that everyone at the meeting knew they were being recorded. That's confirmed with a thread of emails that was sent to The Center Square, showing comments from DHS and the Secretary of State's Office. The office sent the video to The Center Square, which watched the recording. “What you’re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted, basically?” Murphy Hebert, chief deputy of the Secretary of State's Office, said during the DHS meeting. “I probably wouldn’t use the sentence, ‘It hasn’t been vetted’, because definitely we’ve done something with it to get down to 15,000,” DHS official Kimberley Vogt responded. “But it hasn’t had a full manual review for each one [voter]. It’s a lot of work to go one-by-one, I’m sure you can imagine.” After the meeting, a new DHS list of only 185 reportedly confirmed noncitizens from the initial 15,903 was sent to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office, with an additional 6,218 “high confidence” noncitizen voters. The Center Square reached out to DHS, which noted the 185 were individuals who were manually reviewed and that 6,218 others on the list had the highest number of matching attributes for being potential noncitizen voters. The department said it compared voters' rolls against its lists of illegal immigrants. DHS staff told the Nevada Secretary of State’s staff members during the meeting that the potential illegal voters list was based on names, phone numbers, addresses and birthdates. When later pressed over email for information on how the 185 reported noncitizen voters were determined, Vogt said they would only be providing voter ID numbers. Talks between the DHS and the Secretary of State's Office have since broken down, Aguilar told The Center Square. Aguilar said the potential noncitizens voter lists were being used as a tool to create fear among Latino voters to keep them from the polls by the Trump administration. “When you add additional pressures and additional stresses to outside activities, they're going to think twice about participating,” Aguilar said of Latino voters in Nevada. “They're going to say this is not worth the stress, this is not worth the potential of creating a situation I may not want to be in – so they're self-selecting out.” He tied the issue to speculation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents standing guard at polling stations in Nevada, arguing that even the potential of their presence would dissuade some Latino voters in the state. Aguilar said his office was open to further communication with DHS and potentially to their own investigations into the noncitizen voter list, if DHS provided the additional information requested as to how they concluded the 185, from the original list of 15,903 individuals, were illegal voters. Aguilar said the state would go ahead with this year’s election as planned. Nevada’s early voting starts Oct. 17, with election day set for Nov. 3.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.As Pennsylvania’s growing measles outbreak gets closer to her community on the west side of the state, Amanda Clear is taking actions to assess the risks to her son Dylan. One of her first stops: A new state website that lets anyone look up the student vaccination rates at individual Pennsylvania schools. That’s how she learned that about 86% of the students at Dylan’s school are vaccinated against measles. That’s well below the 95% that’s considered necessary to prevent an outbreak of the highly contagious virus.“Having that data point is very informative to help parents decide what they need to do,” Clear told me. Even though Dylan, 9, is vaccinated, he has an immune disorder that makes her worry he could be at increased risk for a breakthrough infection. But across the country, not all parents can easily get access to this information. In some states, even public health officials don’t routinely know the vaccination rates at individual schools. That’s despite research highlighting the importance of this data nationally in assessing the risks of outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases within local communities.Here’s what I found.What the research showsSince measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, CDC scientists have found that outbreaks involving more than 50 people have largely involved close-knit communities that for varying reasons have chosen not to get vaccinated. In the past few years, declining vaccination rates have contributed to these outbreaks spreading further within communities.A prime example was the recent record-setting measles outbreak in South Carolina, which centered on a vaccine-hesitant Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking community in Spartanburg County and resulted in 997 documented infections by the time it ended in April. Most of those infected were school-age children and teens, and measles exposures that occurred at 33 schools resulted in 874 students being asked to quarantine at home for up to 21 days. Yet across the country, data about childhood vaccination rates is often reported at a county or state level – averaging the vaccination status of kids over a broad geographic area. It’s an approach that obscures localized pockets of unvaccinated people who live near each other, send their children to the same schools, and often share the same cultures, traditions, and beliefs, including about whether to vaccinate their children. In some cases these clusters may indicate shared barriers to accessing healthcare, such as transportation or language.By analyzing South Carolina’s school-level immunization data, Clemson University researchers have identified clusters of undervaccinated students and their geographic relationship to measles exposures during the state’s recent outbreak. As Clemson research associate Emily Serman mapped the data, it revealed that the risk from measles wasn’t spread evenly across Spartanburg County, which has one of the state’s lowest childhood vaccination rates. Inside the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades: Records reveal spread in vaccine-hesitant community“It’s really concentrated in the northern half of Spartanburg County,” she told Healthbeat. The Clemson team’s findings suggest that the geographic clustering of undervaccinated students may pave the way for outbreaks. At the national level, researchers from Cornell University warned in the journal Nature Medicine last month that county-level vaccination averages can appear high enough to protect against measles spreading, yet still hide dense clusters of unvaccinated children that can fuel outbreaks. How states compare Knowing how many children are — and are not — vaccinated at individual schools is a powerful indicator of local outbreak risks, these researchers say. Yet whether parents, researchers, or even health departments have routine access to that information varies significantly by state. Some states post easily accessible, up-to-date maps and data. Others require a public records request or suggest the public seek the information from school districts, which might also require a public records request. Some don’t collect it until an outbreak strikes. Texas: Neither the public nor the state’s health department have routine access to school-level vaccination data. State law only requires school districts to report student vaccination rates at an aggregated district-wide level, said Chris Van Deusen, spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services, which posts an annual report of the information it receives. The report includes some information about individual private schools. Legislation to require reporting at the individual school level failed amid concerns from some legislators that it could result in students and families being harassed. “In the event of an outbreak in a particular school or area, public health can get campus-level data from schools,” Van Deusen said. Minnesota: The state’s health department has posted vaccination rates for individual schools and school districts since 2014, said Ben Christianson, senior epidemiologist in the department’s vaccine preventable disease section. The department uses the data to identify at-risk areas and its public availability has helped make school and childcare leaders better aware of immunization coverage in their local areas, Christianson said. It’s also reduced the department’s workload responding to data requests, he said.Florida: Obtaining school-level data doesn’t appear to be easy. The Florida Department of Health — which last month announced a proposed rule that would reduce the number of required school vaccines — only posts aggregated county-level data for the state’s kindergartners and seventh graders on its website. Isabella White, the department’s press secretary, said by email that “school-specific rates are not publicly available unless requested directly from the relevant health department or school district.” Does the state collect school-level data so it can prepare for and respond to outbreaks? White wouldn’t say. Two school districts — Broward County Public Schools and Miami-Dade County Public Schools — told Healthbeat they only submit aggregated district-wide data to the state health department. Neither district makes its school-level data public without a public records request.South Carolina: During the state’s recent measles outbreak, the state health department began posting school-level data on its website that shows the percentage of children who were up-to-date on all of their required school shots, but not by individual vaccines. The department told Healthbeat that the data helps it prioritize outreach to schools with low vaccine coverage and that it plans to continue posting updated data online each winter. Previously the state had only published school vaccination data at the county and regional level. During South Carolina’s recent measles outbreak, exposures occurred at 33 schools, including Boiling Springs Elementary School in Spartanburg County. California: While the state health department posts school-level vaccination data on its website, it’s outdated — in some cases by several years, Healthbeat found. The most recent data displayed by the state’s interactive database and map is from the 2021-2022 school year. Elsewhere, the department posts some more recent, but still outdated, spreadsheets with school-level data for kindergarteners during the 2024-25 school year, plus some older data for seventh graders. Health officials have access to current data, the department told Healthbeat, and the 2025-26 school reports and data will be posted online over the next year.“In the meantime, parents and members of the public may check with their school or local health department about coverage,” a department spokesperson said by email. School-level data can be found on at least some county health department websites, such as these for Los Angeles County and San Diego County.Pennsylvania: This summer, the state’s health and education departments launched a new interactive website that details vaccination rates in key grades at individual schools. “Pennsylvania parents deserve clear, accessible data about the health of their children’s schools,” Dr. Debra Bogen, the state’s secretary of health, said in announcing the tool. The data will help families and local leaders work to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles and whooping cough, she said.Why it mattersKnowing the percentage of children immunized in individual schools can inform where and how health officials focus their resources, whether that’s for deploying staff to do contact tracing during an outbreak, assessing barriers to immunization, or conducting focused communication campaigns, the Clemson research team told Healthbeat.“What the analysis did was it took a massive state-level problem and broke it down into several big, but more manageable, areas,” said Lior Rennert, a professor and director at the Clemson Center for Public Health Modeling and Response. “If you want to do an intervention, you now have targeted areas where you could do that.” For the public, the data can provide a way to gauge outbreak risks in their immediate area. This can be especially useful for people at higher risk from certain diseases, such as pregnant women, infants, and young children who have not been vaccinated, and people with compromised immune systems, such as Dylan Clear.After looking up Dylan’s school and learning not enough students were fully vaccinated against measles to prevent the virus spreading, his mother has begun working with school officials on a specialized plan in case he needs to miss school should Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak reach their area. “If you have the knowledge,” Amanda Clear said, “you know how to respond appropriately rather than out of fear.” What to watchWith the U.S. experiencing another record-breaking year for measles and outbreaks becoming a new norm, Pennsylvania and South Carolina this year made school-level vaccination data more transparent. We’re watching whether: The resurgence in measles prompts other states to reconsider what information they make visible about vaccination coverage in local schools.Parents and communities push for greater access to information about the outbreak risks at individual schools.Alison Young is Healthbeat’s senior national reporter. Sign up to receive her free national newsletter here. You can reach her at ayoung@healthbeat.org or through the messaging app Signal at alisonyoungreports.48.

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