Nevada Secretary of State seeks $30M to create state-run voter registration database | Casey Harrison/Las Vegas Sun
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is asking state lawmakers for approximately $30 million to help aid in establishing a statewide voter registration database that would modernize the way elections are administered. Signed into law during the 81st legislative session in 2021 — before Aguilar took office — Assembly Bill 422, had sought to create a centralized statewide database of registered voters known as the Voter Registration and Election Management Solution, or VREMS. According to Aguilar, that’s different from the current system where such information is kept on a county-by-county basis, putting workers in his office in frequent contact with county clerks. In a final assessment issued by former Secretary of State Barbra Cegavske last year, she advised the VREMS system not be fully implemented until 2026 to ensure the project “not be rushed,” while remaining a top priority. The problem with that, Aguilar told the Sun, is that much of the technology being used for the database, such as source coding, could be obsolete by the time it’s ready for use and thus costing the state more in the long run by continually playing catch-up.
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