{"id":54911,"date":"2023-03-07T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/?p=54911"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:02:21","slug":"nevada-elections-verms-cisco-aguilar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nevada-elections-verms-cisco-aguilar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada secretary of state requests $45M for elections, business licensing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar on Monday requested new funding from the state legislature to update two major computer systems, one for voter registration and elections and another for business licensing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpdating the state\u2019s technology is critical to ensuring our government is transparent and accessible \u2013 Nevadans deserve systems that work for them and doesn\u2019t make their lives harder,\u201d Aguilar said in a press release. \u201cThese technology upgrades to our election and business licensing systems have long been needed \u2013 and our office is ready to use this funding to make great improvements across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of his budget proposal, Aguilar requested $30 million for a centralized voter registration system. His office said the funding would speed along development of the state\u2019s ongoing Voter Registration &amp; Election Management Solution, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/sos\/elections\/vrems-project\">VERMS<\/a>, project. The project, which centers around the purchase of a \u201ccommercial off-the-shelf\u201d solution, was initiated in 2021 by former Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/sos\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/10326\/638073109065370000\">who deemed an alternative proposal for a custom-built solution<\/a> to carry \u201csignificant risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cegavske\u2019s office originally estimated the VERMS project would cost between $9.5 million and $22 million. Her office described the move to a centralized platform as a transition from a \u201cbottom-up\u201d to a \u201ctop-down\u201d system, in which the state\u2019s 1.8 million registered voters could access a \u201cmore unified, consistent, and efficient elections system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aguilar also requested $15 million for Project Orion, an overhaul of the state\u2019s business licensing portal, which is called SilverFlume. His office said that funding would help fix bugs and streamline business processes in the platform, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/outages-plague-secretary-of-states-revamped-business-filing-system\">occasionally suffered outages<\/a>. Aguilar\u2019s office claims that SilverFlume last year collected $200 million for the state&#8217;s coffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed budget also included funding requests for new staff to support elections and business licensing development, a mail-in-ballot tracking and notification system, a website redesign and language translation services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar this week submitted to state lawmakers a budget proposal that included two upgraded computer systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":54912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":false,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4677],"tags":[128,213,4788,5152,23967,23968],"people":[],"special-report":[],"authors":[4696],"class_list":["post-54911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-elections","tag-nevada","tag-it-modernization","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-cisco-aguilar","tag-business-licensing","author-colin-wood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v24.5) - 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