Category: Trump Administration Official (USCIS/DHS, National Security) Role: Fraud division chief, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS/DHS). DHS’s point of contact in the August 2026 data exchange with Nevada election officials over the department’s noncitizen-voter figures. Priority: P2 (provisional — editor to confirm). The attribution question that held this open is now largely answered: the inflated public figures were announced by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and President Trump, not by Vogt. Vogt’s documented conduct is (1) describing the 15,903 Nevada figure her directorate produced as an unreviewed “ceiling,” and (2) declining Nevada’s request for the identifying data behind 185 voters DHS called confirmed noncitizens. Under .cursor/rules/patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §4 that is at most a P2 “enabler with documented but not individually criminal role.” An editor should also decide whether a career-level division chief whose own statements narrowed the claim meets the bar for a standalone profile at all, or belongs as a named figure inside a topic piece on the DHS noncitizen-voter campaign.

Name spelling: Nevada’s own correspondence (Ott letter, Sept. 23, 2026), CNN, Democracy Docket, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mediaite, HuffPost and The New Republic all spell her name Kimberley. NPR (Aug. 25, 2026) spells it “Kimberly.” This draft follows the primary-source spelling. The slug stays kimberly-vogt-profile because a draft’s slug must match its filename; rename both together before promotion if the editor wants them aligned.

Role

Vogt is the fraud division chief within FDNS, the USCIS directorate responsible for fraud detection and national-security vetting. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, quoting her email to Nevada, gives her title as “fraud division chief for the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate”; CNN, which reviewed a recording of the Aug. 13, 2026 meeting and more than a dozen emails, describes her as someone “who leads a fraud division at DHS.”

FDNS performed the voter-roll matching behind DHS’s Nevada and Pennsylvania figures. DHS’s own Sept. 9, 2026 email to Nevada says “FDNS … conducted an analysis of Nevada’s publicly available voter file” and that “FDNS employees tirelessly reviewed millions of records”; its Sept. 9 email to Pennsylvania (as reported by Votebeat/Spotlight PA) attributes the Pennsylvania matches to FDNS as well. In the Aug. 13 meeting Vogt said “we’ve done something with it to get down to 15,000” — her team’s work produced the preliminary Nevada figure.

FDNS is headed by Associate Director Nicolas Bartell, who took the role on April 6, 2026 (USCIS leadership page). Bartell also attended the Aug. 13 Nevada meeting (NPR). The department-level project lead is Heather Honey, whom DHS hired to run its “election integrity” campaign and promoted in June 2026 to senior counselor to the secretary (CNN); NPR describes Honey as the person “leading this noncitizen voter project at DHS.”

Whether Vogt reports directly to Bartell, and when she took her current post, are not established in public records; no public USCIS page lists her.

Source-accuracy note: The New Republic (Malcolm Ferguson, Sept. 2026) calls her “Homeland Security Secretary Kimberley Vogt.” That is wrong. Markwayne Mullin is DHS Secretary — confirmed this session by Democracy Docket (photo of his March 18, 2026 confirmation hearing), CNN, NPR, CBS and Nevada’s own letter. Do not cite TNR for her title.

Background

No verified biographical detail — prior positions, appointment date, career path into FDNS — is available in public sources.

Basis for Inclusion

Subject is a federal official (USCIS/DHS) acting in her official capacity. The documented conduct below consists of administrative acts and on-the-record statements in that capacity — a data-sharing decision, a spreadsheet transmission and statements to a state election office — not private speech, so it clears the Step 1 “documented conduct beyond speech” bar in accountability-profile-builder.md. The private-citizen inclusion gate does not apply.

Democratic Malice Assessment

Gate result: Not scored. Per agent-base/skills/malice-evaluator.md, the DMA gate asks first whether a documented action is Ideology (an agency operating through its own ordinary process) or Malice (subversion of the mechanism itself).

The record now answers the attribution question this gate was waiting on. The inflated public figures came from the top: DHS sent the four states letters signed by Secretary Mullin on July 16, 2026, framing the numbers as a “preliminary review” of who “may be” noncitizens; Trump touted them in a primetime address that night; and Mullin turned them into “We’ve identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states” at a July 17 news conference (CNN, NPR, CBS). Vogt’s own documented statements move the other way — she called the Nevada number a “ceiling,” said it “hasn’t had a full manual review of each one,” and wrote that DHS “did not reduce the 15,903 to 185.”

Her one act that cuts against Nevada’s ability to check DHS’s work is the Aug. 20 refusal to share names, dates of birth and addresses for the 185 voters. That is a data-minimization call by a fraud official — arguably defensible on privacy grounds, arguably obstructive given that the department was simultaneously threatening election officials with prosecution. No document shows whether she made that call herself or relayed a department position. On the current record it reads as an agency operating through its ordinary process, so no DMS score is assigned to her. Score Mullin’s conduct on Markwayne Mullin — DHS Secretary, not here.

Legal Disclaimer

This profile discusses conduct in the subject’s official capacity and does not allege criminal wrongdoing. Any characterization of conduct as advancing or undermining democratic norms reflects editorial assessment under Citizen Analyst’s published methodology, not a legal finding. See New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).

Documented Actions

1. Nevada noncitizen-voter list dispute (July–September 2026)

Evidence: The timeline below comes from Nevada’s own Sept. 23, 2026 letter to the DHS Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (Greg D. Ott, forwarding the full email chain), which Democracy Docket published.

• July 16, 2026: DHS, in a letter from Secretary Mullin, told Nevada there “may be as many as 15,903 non-citizens registered to vote” in the state.
• July 29: Nevada asked for the data sources and methods behind the number.
• Aug. 13: Virtual meeting between DHS and Nevada election officials. Asked by C. Murphy Hebert, chief deputy in the Nevada secretary of state’s office, “So what you’re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted?”, Vogt answered: “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. So I wouldn’t say that. But it hasn’t had a full manual review of each one.” She added: “That would be the ceiling. So it should not magically go above that. It would stay where it would stay, and it would go down from there as we make our way through it.” She said checking the names individually “is a lot of work to go one by one” (CNN, which reviewed the recording). DHS officials also told Nevada they had used a copy of the state’s voter file from July 2025 (Ott letter).
• Aug. 14: Vogt emailed Nevada a spreadsheet of 185 “voter case numbers” on whom DHS had completed manual review, plus 6,218 voter case numbers not yet reviewed (Ott letter). In a follow-up she wrote: “I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185 … We’ve manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens” (Inquirer, Mediaite, citing the New York Times), and “We still have 14,000+ that still need additional review” (Las Vegas Review-Journal).
• Aug. 19: Nevada asked for first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, residential address and any other data points DHS matched for the 185.
• Aug. 20: Vogt replied that DHS would “prefer to limit our information sharing to just providing you the voter ID from your public voter list. The information in the NV public list is what we used to conduct our research so [it’s] readily available to you but please let us know if there’s an issue” (Ott letter; full wording per NPR). Nevada’s deputy secretary of state for elections, Mark Wlaschin, answered the same day that the state was “unable to conduct an analysis without real verifiable information.”
• Sept. 9: The DHS Office of Intergovernmental Affairs — not Vogt — wrote to Wlaschin defending the 15,903 figure, asserting that “each voter ID is unique to an individual registrant,” and saying “each one of the 15,903 individuals identified should be carefully reviewed by your state.”
• Sept. 23: Nevada (Ott) replied that “as for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens. You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise,” and that “DHS has never provided Nevada with a list of 15,903 individuals.”

DHS called Nevada’s characterization “false,” saying “the list of 185 were simply a subset of individuals that had gone through a rigorous manual review process” (statement quoted by the Inquirer and HuffPost, originally to the New York Times). DHS also said the 6,218 tranche “was at the request of Nevada” (Inquirer).

SourceNevada Deputy Attorney General Greg D. Ott to DHS Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Sept. 23, 2026, forwarding DHS’s Sept. 9, 2026 email (published by Democracy Docket): https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/voter-roll-letter-to-dhs.pdf ; CNN, Gabe Cohen, “Trump officials touted a voter fraud bombshell. Their data hasn’t proved it,” 2026-08-21: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/politics/markwayne-mullin-voter-fraud-nevadaThe voter-ID problem (corrected from the prior draft): The previous version of this profile said the non-unique voter IDs “complicate any claim that withholding fuller data was itself obstructive.” That had the argument backwards. DHS’s Sept. 9 email claimed each voter ID is unique, so an ID alone was enough for Nevada to act. Nevada’s Sept. 23 letter says the opposite: the move from county databases to a single statewide system means one number can belong to different people at different times — “123456” might have been Jane Smith under a county system and John Doe under the statewide one. That is Nevada’s reason an ID-only list cannot be verified, and why it asked for names and dates of birth. DHS matched on names, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers from the public file, so DHS knows which person it matched; the ambiguity arises only because it declined to say.

Corroborating coverage: NPR, Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks, “DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated,” 2026-08-25 (https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5940807/noncitizen-voters-trump-nevada-call) — attributes the “ceiling” remark to an unnamed “DHS official,” and names Vogt for the Aug. 20 email; Democracy Docket, Yunior Rivas, “DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens,” 2026-09-24 (date derived: the article says Ott wrote “Wednesday,” and the letter is dated Sept. 23); Philadelphia Inquirer, “From 16,000 to 185 to zero,” 2026-09-24; Mediaite and HuffPost (both Sept. 2026, both relaying the New York Times report). Ott’s title: the Inquirer, HuffPost, Mediaite and TNR call him a Nevada deputy attorney general; Democracy Docket calls him chief deputy secretary of state. The letter itself is signed only “Greg.”

Every quote above is confirmed from the Nevada letter, CNN or NPR directly, except the Aug. 14 “did not reduce” quote, which is attributed to The New York Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal as relayed by other outlets.

Pattern: A preliminary, unreviewed match count published by department leadership as a finding, then narrowed under state scrutiny — with the narrowing coming from Vogt and the inflation from above her.

2. Pennsylvania noncitizen-voter claim and methodology disclosure (July–September 2026)

Evidence: DHS’s July 16, 2026 letter to Pennsylvania put the possible count at 14,576 (Democracy Docket; CBS). At an Aug. 13, 2026 virtual meeting — the same day as the Nevada call — “DHS representatives explained that they did not have high confidence that the 14,576 individuals referenced in your letter were, in fact, non-citizens,” according to Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt’s follow-up letter to Mullin (Democracy Docket). DHS’s Sept. 9 email to Schmidt, signed only by the DHS Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, said FDNS identified the matches by comparing Pennsylvania’s public voter roll against internal DHS databases on fields such as first name, last name, date of birth, phone number and address, and called Schmidt’s “high confidence” framing a “blatant mischaracterization.” That email also contradicted DHS’s July statement to Pennsylvania that Social Security numbers had been used in some matches (Votebeat/Spotlight PA).

Vogt’s role in Pennsylvania: Not established. No source names her in the Pennsylvania correspondence or the Aug. 13 Pennsylvania meeting. The Sept. 9 email came from Intergovernmental Affairs, and DHS’s statement to Votebeat referred only to “FDNS.” This action documents her directorate’s work, not her personal conduct; do not attribute the Pennsylvania statements to her without a source naming her.

SourceVotebeat/Spotlight PA, Carter Walker, “Trump administration explains how it identified potential noncitizen voters, says it will provide list to Pennsylvania,” 2026-09-16: https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/09/16/noncitizen-voter-department-homeland-security-pennsylvania-methodology/ ; Democracy Docket, Yunior Rivas, “DHS lacks ‘high confidence’ in its Pennsylvania noncitizen voter roll claims”: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-lacks-high-confidence-in-its-pennsylvania-noncitizen-voter-roll-claims/ ; NPR, “Trump’s claims of 250,000 non-U.S. citizens on voter rolls leave some states baffled,” 2026-07-31: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5906708/trump-claim-noncitizens-midterms-election-interference-voter-rolls ; CBS News, “What to know about the Trump administration’s claim that 250K noncitizens are registered to vote in 4 states”: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-markwayne-mullin-non-citizens-registered-voters-california-new-jersey-nevada-pennsylvaniaThe 118,000 discrepancy — resolved: The earlier research pass described “DHS’s own letters” putting a Nevada-plus-Pennsylvania match count at about 118,000. That was mislabeled. Per NPR’s July 31, 2026 reporting on the letters, 118,003 is the four-state combined subset — California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania together — whose “name, date of birth, address and Social Security number match a non-citizen in our files.” The per-state “may be as many as” figures in the same letters were 190,832 (California), 35,152 (New Jersey), 15,903 (Nevada) and 14,576 (Pennsylvania) per CBS, which sum to 256,463 — the source of the public “250,000+” claim. Nevada’s letter-specific SSN-match subset was 8,576 (Democracy Docket, “Nevada demands DHS explain…”). Several outlets (Inquirer, Mediaite) render the Trump/Mullin public figure as “more than 270,000”; CNN, NPR and CBS report 250,000. The letters’ own numbers support ~256,000.

Corroborating coverage: Pennsylvania Capital-Star (Votebeat republication); Spotlight PA (same story).

Pattern: Same as Action 1, at the directorate level.

3. California 190,832 claim and Trujillo v. DHS (filed 2026-09-02)

Evidence: DHS’s July 16, 2026 letter told California there may be up to 190,832 noncitizens on its rolls (CBS; Democracy Docket). On Sept. 2, 2026, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and Pedro Trujillo, a naturalized citizen and registered California voter, sued DHS, Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Attorney General Todd Blanche in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, represented by the UCLA Voting Rights Project. The complaint centers on the California letter — “Methodology for arriving at this figure has never been provided, and it is almost certainly widely incorrect” (Spectrum News) — and says the plaintiffs do not know whether DHS used SAVE or another federal dataset to generate the 190,832 figure (Democracy Docket). It brings eight claims, including Privacy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, Elections Clause, due process and equal protection, and asks the court to declare unlawful and block the “list matching exercise/voter purge” against California.

Docket (verified via CourtListener this session): Trujillo v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:26-cv-03072 (D.D.C., filed 2026-09-02), assigned to Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. Parties of record: plaintiffs Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and Pedro Trujillo; defendants U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin and Todd Blanche. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74737644/trujillo-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/ — Judge Sooknanan is the same judge who blocked the revamped SAVE system in June 2026 (NPR, Sept. 25, 2026).

Correction from the prior draft: The case is captioned Trujillo, not “CHIRLA v. DHS.” The American Immigration Council page previously cited as “CHIRLA v. DHS” is a different case — No. 1:25-cv-00943 (D.D.C., filed March 31, 2025), a challenge to DHS’s alien-registration interim final rule. It has nothing to do with voter rolls and is removed as a source.

Vogt is not a party. Whether FDNS’s matching specifically is at issue is still open: the complaint as reported does not know which dataset produced the California number, and nothing in the record ties the California analysis to FDNS or to Vogt.

The description of the complaint above follows Spectrum News and Democracy Docket reporting.

SourceSpectrum News, “Immigrant rights group sues DHS over voter rolls,” 2026-09-02: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/politics/2026/09/02/chirla-voter-rolls-dhs-lawsuit ; Democracy Docket, “New lawsuit challenges DHS over unverified noncitizen voter roll claims,” 2026-09-02: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-lawsuit-challenges-dhs-over-unverified-noncitizen-voter-roll-claims/ ; UCLA Luskin, “UCLA Voting Rights Project and CHIRLA Sue DHS Over Threat to Purge California Voters”: https://luskin.ucla.edu/news/ucla-voting-rights-project-and-chirla-sue-dhs-over-threat-to-purge-california-voters/Context — DOJ and FEMA pressure: In July 2026, after California and other states refused to hand over voter rolls, DOJ sent state election officials letters warning of criminal prosecution if they knowingly retained noncitizens, and DHS said it would withhold FEMA funds from states that had not run their rolls through a DHS verification system (Spectrum News). Mullin said at his July 17 news conference that officials who did not act on DHS information “can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison time” (Democracy Docket; NPR). None of this is attributed to Vogt.

Pattern: Directorate- and department-level, not personal to Vogt.

Systemic Context (not attributed to Vogt individually)

FDNS “Unlawful Voter Initiative” whistleblower disclosure. On Sept. 8, 2026, Democracy Defenders Fund, representing an anonymous federal whistleblower, wrote to Sen. Alex Padilla describing a USCIS-FDNS headquarters “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” The disclosure alleges that FDNS staff were trained once (Aug. 21), started Aug. 25, were given quotas of at least five subjects an hour and 40 a day, were directed to use DHS-held personal data to access state voter-lookup websites — potentially making false attestations that they were the voter — and were told by “USCIS-FDNS HQ” leadership that they would not be personally liable. Padilla and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer forwarded it to DHS and USCIS on Sept. 13 with questions, including which senior officials “ordered, approved and oversee” the FDNS diversion. The disclosure does not name Vogt (checked this session — no mention of her, Bartell or Honey). It is directorate context only. Nevada’s Sept. 23 letter cites it, and also cites NAACP v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:26-cv-03263 (D.D.C., filed 2026-09-18, Judge Loren L. Alikhan; Voting Rights Act §11(b)), verified via CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74811483/national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people-v-us/ . Vogt’s role in that case, if any, is not established. Source: https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09.13.26-Senate-Whistleblower-Letter-DHS-USCIS_combined_signed.pdf

SAVE. DHS’s broader citizenship-verification tool has misidentified U.S. citizens as noncitizens; correspondence shows DHS had to correct information provided to at least five states (Texas Tribune/ProPublica, 2026-02-13: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion/). In June 2026 U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked the revamped SAVE, finding violations of the Social Security Act, Privacy Act and APA; the Supreme Court revived it for now in September 2026 (NPR, 2026-09-25: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/25/nx-s1-5976804/supreme-court-trump-save-noncitizen-voting). DHS’s Sept. 9 email to Nevada says FDNS ran its own analysis precisely because Nevada had not processed its list through SAVE — so the Nevada figures come from FDNS matching, not SAVE.

Resource diversion. The New York Times reported in September 2026 that hundreds of Homeland Security agents were pulled from international-crime and terrorism work for a roughly three-week search for noncitizens on voter rolls (as relayed by the Inquirer). At the Aug. 13 Nevada meeting, Bartell said he had discussed “moving 40 additional staff to do nothing but this” (NPR).

Pattern Analysis

Severity Assessment

Immediate harm: Moderate, mostly departmental. Nevada says all 185 voters DHS called confirmed noncitizens are citizens per its records; DHS disputes that. Vogt transmitted that list and declined to provide data that would have let Nevada check it. Democratic erosion: Department-level. Leadership published preliminary match counts as findings and paired them with prosecution and funding threats. Vogt’s on-record statements narrowed the claim; her data-sharing refusal made it harder to test. Authoritarian marker: None documented as Vogt’s own conduct.

Accountability Status

Current status: Draft. Attribution resolved enough to recommend P2 provisional; not gate-clear until the remaining verification tags are closed or accepted as gaps.

Legal exposure: None identified for Vogt individually. She is not a party in Trujillo v. DHS, No. 1:26-cv-03072 (D.D.C.) or, as far as checked, NAACP v. DHS, No. 1:26-cv-03263 (D.D.C.) — the NAACP party list was not pulled.

Congressional oversight: No testimony under her name was located in the sources reviewed. The Padilla/Schumer Sept. 13, 2026 letter asks DHS and USCIS which officials directed the FDNS voter work; a response, if one comes, may name her. Nevada’s letter reports that at least 18 senators have called for an Office of Inspector General investigation.

Public accountability: Nevada election officials publicly disputed all 185 designations; DHS called that “false.” Pennsylvania’s Republican secretary of state reported DHS’s “not high confidence” caveat; DHS called that a “blatant mischaracterization.” CHIRLA and Trujillo are litigating the California figure and the broader matching program.

Truth and Reconciliation Considerations

Investigation priorities

1. Still open: Vogt’s appointment date, tenure and direct reporting line. FDNS is headed by Nicolas Bartell (since April 6, 2026), and the department project by Heather Honey; where Vogt sits between them needs an org chart or FOIA.
2. Largely answered: Who made the public figures. Mullin’s July 16 letters and July 17 news conference, and Trump’s July 16 address. Still open: whether anyone at FDNS — Vogt included — was asked to approve the “250,000” framing before Mullin used it, or flagged that the counts were unreviewed. The Padilla/Schumer questions to DHS go to exactly this.
3. Resolved: The 118,000 figure is the four-state combined SSN-match subset (118,003), not Nevada plus Pennsylvania. See Action 2.
4. Partly answered: Nevada has not said the voter-ID reuse caused DHS’s false positives — it says the IDs alone cannot tell it which person DHS matched. DHS’s use of a July 2025 voter file and the naturalization-lag problem SAVE litigation documents are other candidate causes. Unknown for the other three states.
5. Partly answered: Trujillo v. DHS targets the California figure and the matching program; the complaint as reported does not know whether the California number came from SAVE or another dataset, and nothing ties it to FDNS. Read the complaint.
6. New: Did Vogt make the Aug. 20 decision to withhold identifying data, or relay a department position? Did she participate in the Aug. 13 Pennsylvania meeting?

Testimony value

Moderate. She was in the room for the Aug. 13 Nevada meeting and ran the follow-up data exchange. Her testimony could establish what FDNS told leadership about the reliability of the counts before July 16, and who set the data-sharing posture toward the states.

Institutional reform

• Independent audit of FDNS’s voter-roll matching before any public release of match counts, including published error rates against state-verified outcomes — the Nevada record (15,903 → 185 → Nevada says zero) is the case for it.
• Any federal claim about noncitizen registrants should carry the identifying data a state needs to verify it, or not be made publicly.

Cross-References

Skills: malice-evaluator, source-credibility-scoring, citation-checker

Related profiles: Markwayne Mullin — DHS Secretary — the July 16 letters and July 17 “250,000” claim are his conduct and belong there. No Heather Honey profile exists yet; she is the department-level lead and a stronger profile candidate than Vogt.

Topics: noncitizen voting, voter rolls, DHS, USCIS, FDNS, Unlawful Voter Initiative, SAVE system, Nevada, Pennsylvania, California, Trujillo v. DHS

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Sources

All sources below were read in full text on 2026-10-05 unless marked otherwise.

Primary documents

1. Nevada Deputy Attorney General Greg D. Ott to DHS Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, “Election Security Follow Up,” Sept. 23, 2026, with DHS’s Sept. 9, 2026 email to Mark Wlaschin (hosted by Democracy Docket). https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/voter-roll-letter-to-dhs.pdf
2. Democracy Defenders Fund to Sen. Alex Padilla, Sept. 8, 2026, forwarded with questions by Sens. Padilla and Schumer to DHS/USCIS, Sept. 13, 2026. https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09.13.26-Senate-Whistleblower-Letter-DHS-USCIS_combined_signed.pdf
3. Trujillo v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:26-cv-03072 (D.D.C., filed 2026-09-02), CourtListener docket 74737644. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74737644/trujillo-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/
4. NAACP v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:26-cv-03263 (D.D.C., filed 2026-09-18), CourtListener docket 74811483. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74811483/national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people-v-us/
5. USCIS, “Nicolas Bartell, Associate Director, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate.” https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/organization/leadership/nicolas-bartell-associate-director-fraud-detection-and-national-security-directorate

Reporting

1. CNN, Gabe Cohen, “Trump officials touted a voter fraud bombshell. Their data hasn’t proved it,” 2026-08-21. https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/politics/markwayne-mullin-voter-fraud-nevada
2. NPR, Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks, “DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated,” 2026-08-25. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5940807/noncitizen-voters-trump-nevada-call
3. NPR, Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks, “Trump’s claims of 250,000 non-U.S. citizens on voter rolls leave some states baffled,” 2026-07-31. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5906708/trump-claim-noncitizens-midterms-election-interference-voter-rolls
4. CBS News, “What to know about the Trump administration’s claim that 250K noncitizens are registered to vote in 4 states,” 2026-07. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-markwayne-mullin-non-citizens-registered-voters-california-new-jersey-nevada-pennsylvania
5. Democracy Docket, Yunior Rivas, “DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens,” 2026-09-24. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-noncitizen-voter-claims-unravel-in-nevada-as-state-confirms-flagged-voters-are-citizens/
6. Philadelphia Inquirer, “From 16,000 to 185 to zero: Trump’s claims of illegal voting in Nevada fizzle,” 2026-09-24. https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/voter-fraud-nevada-fact-check-20260924.html
7. Mediaite, “Nevada Says Every Single Voter DHS Flagged as a Noncitizen Is Actually a U.S. Citizen,” 2026-09. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/nevada-says-every-single-voter-dhs-flagged-as-a-noncitizen-is-actually-a-u-s-citizen/
8. HuffPost, Anthony Orrico, “Trump’s Claims Of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Dealt Major Blow After Bombshell Report,” 2026-09. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nevada-voter-registration-trump-noncitizen-voting_n_6ab5a169e4b0bad9a6467da0
9. The New Republic, Malcolm Ferguson, “DHS Witch Hunt Falls Apart as It Can’t Name a Single Noncitizen Voter,” 2026-09. https://newrepublic.com/post/215840/dhs-witch-hunt-cant-name-single-noncitizen-voter-nevada (misstates Vogt’s title — see Role)
10. Democracy Docket, “Nevada demands DHS explain sweeping noncitizen voter roll claims,” 2026-07. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/nevada-demands-dhs-explain-sweeping-noncitizen-voter-roll-claims/
11. Votebeat/Spotlight PA, Carter Walker, “Trump administration explains how it identified potential noncitizen voters, says it will provide list to Pennsylvania,” 2026-09-16. https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/09/16/noncitizen-voter-department-homeland-security-pennsylvania-methodology/ (also https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/09/noncitizen-voter-department-homeland-security-pennsylvania-methodology-elections/ and Pennsylvania Capital-Star republication https://penncapital-star.com/election-2026/trump-administration-explains-how-it-identified-potential-noncitizen-voters-says-it-will-provide-list-to-pennsylvania/)
12. Democracy Docket, Yunior Rivas, “DHS lacks ‘high confidence’ in its Pennsylvania noncitizen voter roll claims,” 2026-08. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-lacks-high-confidence-in-its-pennsylvania-noncitizen-voter-roll-claims/
13. Spectrum News, “Immigrant rights group sues DHS over voter rolls,” 2026-09-02. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/politics/2026/09/02/chirla-voter-rolls-dhs-lawsuit
14. Democracy Docket, Yunior Rivas, “New lawsuit challenges DHS over unverified noncitizen voter roll claims,” 2026-09-02. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-lawsuit-challenges-dhs-over-unverified-noncitizen-voter-roll-claims/
15. UCLA Luskin, “UCLA Voting Rights Project and CHIRLA Sue DHS Over Threat to Purge California Voters,” 2026-09. https://luskin.ucla.edu/news/ucla-voting-rights-project-and-chirla-sue-dhs-over-threat-to-purge-california-voters/
16. Texas Tribune/ProPublica, “A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes. It led to confusion in Texas,” 2026-02-13. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion/
17. NPR, Jude Joffe-Block, “The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks,” 2026-09-25. https://www.npr.org/2026/09/25/nx-s1-5976804/supreme-court-trump-save-noncitizen-voting

Opinion (weighed as opinion, used only for a quoted email)

1. Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, “Nevada’s secretary of state hinders effort to identify noncitizens on voter rolls.” https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-nevadas-secretary-of-state-hinders-effort-to-identify-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls-3883823/ — source for Vogt’s title as quoted from her email and the “14,000+” line.

Removed: American Immigration Council, “CHIRLA v. DHS” — a different, 2025 alien-registration case (No. 1:25-cv-00943), not the voter-roll suit. Political.org (aggregator restating NPR; NPR cited directly instead). The Voting News (aggregator, not used).

Not read (paywalled): The New York Times reports on the Nevada Ott letter (Sept. 2026), the Aug. 13 recording, and the FDNS whistleblower (Corasaniti & Aleaziz, Sept. 14, 2026).

Last Updated: 2026-10-05 Profile Status: Draft — attribution substantially resolved; priority P2 provisional pending editor sign-off Next Review: Before promotion — (1) Vogt’s appointment date and reporting line via org chart or FOIA; (2) read the Trujillo complaint; (3) check the USCIS testimony archive and any DHS response to the Padilla/Schumer questions; (4) editor decision on P2 versus folding Vogt into a topic piece; (5) decide whether to rename the slug/filename to kimberley-vogt-profile to match the primary-source spelling