Nevada Secretary of State Francisco "Cisco" Aguilar presented a 15-minute overview of his office's priorities to the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs, saying the office is focused on "innovation, modernization, and transparency." He described technology and customer-service projects intended to streamline business filings, elections and records services.

Aguilar outlined Project Orion, an effort launched after the 2023 legislative session to replace and stabilize the state's business licensing portal (SilverFlume). He said nearly 560,000 businesses file with Nevada's business licensing system and that in 2024 those services generated more than $200,000,000 for the state general fund. "Project Orion was launched ... to stabilize business services and improve the user experience," he said.

On elections, Aguilar said the office implemented a statewide voter registration and election management system (referred to as VRAM during the presentation) in advance of the 2024 presidential election. He said the office oversees what he described as "2.1 active registered voters" (as stated in testimony) and works daily with county clerks and city clerks on training, election law implementation and outreach. The secretary highlighted outreach work to increase youth turnout and said language access and county compliance with statute-driven language requirements are priorities.

Aguilar described a small IT and operations staff that supported the office's modernization projects and said the office has implemented blockchain to secure domestic-partnership records and to provide a secondary, tamper-evident submission to the National Archives for presidential-elect certification. "We were the first state in the nation to utilize blockchain in the certification of the 2024 presidential election," he said.

Deputy Secretary Ruben Rodriguez and Chief Deputy Gabriel De Cara detailed enforcement and compliance work. Rodriguez described a reorganized compliance team with dedicated investigators for elections, notaries/document preparers and commercial recordings. The office reported growth in document-preparer registrants (2,084 active registrants in FY 2024) and a sharp increase in active notaries (36,732 in FY 2024), and said compliance activity and outreach have increased accordingly.

During Q&A, committee members asked about document preparers and notarios, campaign-finance enforcement, signature cards and voter-roll maintenance, language access for non‑English speakers, use of blockchain and the Nevada Lockbox program for storing advance directives. Aguilar and his deputies said they are working on system replacements, additional compliance staffing, and improved outreach to rural and non‑English-speaking communities; they also said the office will present a budget to the legislature next week.

The presentation was informational; AB 72 (notary and document-preparer changes) was discussed later in the hearing and is covered in a separate article on the bill.