Get to know your candidate: Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Incumbent Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is looking for a second term in charge of the Silver State’s elections.

“You know I never intended to be secretary of state, this is something that just happened,” Aguilar said.

Over the course of his first four years, he touted a number of changes he made and claims he kept his promises not just with elections but online business registration too.

“I promised to replace SilverFlume, which we’ve done. I promised to make our elections more secure and more transparent, we completely replaced the election system since ’22. We have the brand new voter registration election management system, which gave us the basic infrastructure to make the elections more transparent and give people information in real time,” Aguilar said.

Aguilar praised efforts his team made in increasing the speed at which mail-in votes are counted.

“We’ve made significant investments in Washoe County for its elections, we bought…