This position handles election administration, among other state legislative tasks. The office has been under public scrutiny over the last two years as election conspiracies abound.
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Democrat Cisco Aguilar is a lawyer in Las Vegas and previously served on the Nevada Athletic Commission. He supports the state’s current voting measures like mail-in ballots but not showing ID at the polls, which isn’t required in most cases.
“Voter IDs is … I think a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist,” Aguilar said.
His opponent, Republican Jim Marchant, supports voter ID and using paper ballots versus voting machines.
If elected, Aguilar wants to put forth a bill that would make it a felony to harass or intimidate poll workers, which has been an issue following former President Donald Trump’s claim of a rigged election in 2020.
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