LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Early in-person voting is now over in Nevada. If you still want to make your voice heard, you will need to mail in your ballot or show up to a polling place on Election Day.
Friday, the man in charge of Nevada’s elections, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar took questions from local and national media about our process and making sure it is fair and secure.
There is a lot of attention on Nevada this election as a crucial swing state. Observers from the Department or Justice and the FBI will be here making sure there are no issues.
Aguilar says there have been no issues at polling places nor when it comes to cybersecurity so far.
“Voting will be safe and secure, and results will be accurate…We welcome observers, anyone who wants to come in and review how we are doing things here in Nevada because we are doing them in the right way,” Aguilar contended.
Aguilar says Nevada is an open book. It has one of the most secure voting systems in the country and an election plan in the works for the last 18 months.
“I do have to be careful not to disclose our entire security plan for a lot of reasons, but I can tell you we are in contact with the sheriffs in our counties. We have the Election Integrity Task Force which is made up of federal, state, and local law enforcement. We are communicating daily about issues,” Aguilar shared.
Aguilar says the mail-in ballots and signature identification system is working as intended.
“There are multiple databases that have signatures for us to pull. If the signature matches, it goes into processing. If it doesn’t, it goes into a bipartisan review. Both and a democrat and republican have to agree that the signatures match for it to go into processing,” Aguilar explained.
A new system is in place this year providing an extra layer of security, catching people trying to vote twice.
“There have been some issues of double votes which we have been able to catch…If somebody is going from Nye County to Carson City and they voted, we can catch that voter attempting to double vote from county to county and if a person mails in their ballot and then shows up at a polling place, because the system is real-time, it immediately goes into an investigation,” Aguilar described.
While we don’t know the exact number of double votes in this election so far, the Secretary of State revealed they have three full time investigators addressing these issues. They say sometimes it’s an accident and sometimes it is intentional. If someone is found to be double voting on purpose, they will be refereed for criminal charges.
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