(Chuck Muth) – I have tried to give Nevada Secretary of State (SOS) Cisco Aguilar the benefit of the doubt.
Our election laws are confusing and complicated. Even many election officials don’t fully understand them.
But my patience is gone.
On Sunday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published an editorial slamming the lack of transparency coming out of our various government organizations. It noted…
“For all their lip service about the value of openness, too many politicians and public workers default to secrecy or obstruction when faced with scrutiny. The taxpayer-funded agency that hasn’t fought a records request is few and far between.”
Which brings us to Aguilar.
As you’ll see in the “Famous (Hollow) Last Words” at the end of this article, Aguilar has been spouting “transparency” for years. But the reality is quite different.
On March 21, 2025, the SOS released “its fourth quarterly report on investigations into reports on election violations and complaints to increase transparency with the public and increase confidence in Nevada’s safe and secure elections.”
In the release, Aguilar boasted: “I’m also proud of our ongoing efforts in transparency and accountability, like releasing these reports, to keep voters informed throughout the entire election cycle.”
The report includes stats of “double-voting” complaints that have been filed.
For November’s general election, Aguilar reports that 303 “double-voting” complaints had been received. Five of them have been closed. Four found “No Violation,” and one was referred to an unnamed “Outside Agency” – likely the attorney general’s office.
The release further noted…
“The SOS Office created a dedicated team of investigators to address election concerns. … The budget for the investigation team was approved in the 2023 legislative session, and investigators were hired in the following months. Additional investigators ensure speedier turnaround times for investigations and increase transparency for voters.”
All sounds fine and good. Except…
Double-voting” isn’t the main problem.
In fact, if you believe Aguilar (but why would you?), there are systems in place to catch double-voting, supposedly before two ballots from the same person are counted.
No, the real problem is Nevada’s dirty voter rolls which automatically sends mail-in ballots to people who no longer live where they’re registered.
Last summer, the Pigpen Project filed over 33,000 challenges to voters who filled out a permanent change-of-address form with the post office. Aguilar blocked the county clerks from processing the challenges.
Well, our post-election research has identified 881 of those “moved” voters who nevertheless somehow appear to have cast a mail-in ballot last November. We’re now in the process of filing Election Integrity Violation Reports (EIVRs) on those voters.
A word of caution: Just because a voter moved out-of-state and their mail-in ballot was sent in doesn’t mean the moved voter voted that ballot.
Since the ballots are NOT supposed to be forwarded by the post office, it’s quite possible that someone else – maybe the current resident – grabbed the ballot and sent it in unlawfully.
That’s what an investigation is supposed to determine. But Aguilar provides no “transparency” on such cases. We’ve learned that first-hand.
A year ago, our research – thanks to Dan Burdish and the fine folks at EagleAI – identified a man who filed a change of address from Pahrump, Nevada, to Amarillo, Texas.
And according to Texas election data, the man re-registered to vote in Texas and voted in the 2022 general election.
However, his mail-in ballot in Nevada was also cast!
So we filed an official EIVR on March 24, 2024 – a YEAR AGO today.
Bureaucratic Stonewalling
On June 6, 2024, the SOS office advised that the file had been closed. But that’s it. No details. Did they find fraud had been committed? Did they even do a real investigation?
I made repeated verbal requests for the details – including from Aguilar himself, in person, last August. But I kept getting blown off.
So on November 25, 2024, I filed an official “public records request” asking for the details. By law, such requests are supposed to be filled within five days.
Instead, I was advised that they couldn’t comply until January 10, 2025. But when January 10th came around, I received another email advising that they couldn’t comply until March 14th.
Well, March 14 arrived and the ONLY documents – other than the ones I filed – that were included were the Nevada vote histories of the man in Amarillo and the current resident at his old address in Pahrump.
Not a single document related to the investigation (if one was ever actually done).
We’re Not Giving Up
This is insultingly absurd. We asked for the public records related to just ONE file.
And Aguilar’s office has stonewalled and obstructed us every step of the way – which is seriously impeding our efforts to research and track down additional potential fraudulent voting.
I fired off a 4-page response on Saturday.
I don’t believe this is incompetence.
In fact, I’ve worked with several staffers at the SOS over the years and have always found them to be forthcoming and helpful.
But they serve at the pleasure of the Secretary and can only do what he allows them to do.
It’s now become abundantly clear that Secretary Aguilar is intentionally obstructing efforts to clean up Nevada’s dirty rolls for partisan purposes and hiding what his office is – and more importantly, isn’t – doing.
Just like Joe Biden’s border crisis, we don’t need a bunch of new legislation to fix this.
All we need is a new Secretary of State.
The election is next year.
FAMOUS LAST (HOLLOW) WORDS
“It is our commitment to the law and to the people of this state that every (Election Integrity Violation Report) is carefully reviewed so that if there is even a single case of potential fraud identified, we conduct an investigation and, if necessary, refer it for criminal prosecution.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar
“The secretary of state’s job is to protect democracy by keeping our elections fair and transparent.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar campaign commercial, 2022
“The more transparent and open we can be about our elections, I’m all for it.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Independent, 9/12/22
“And then once you reach a normal level, you’ve then got to be more engaged and more transparent, to educate voters and educate those that have an interest in the outcome of our elections.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/26/22
“You have to be transparent.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, KOCO News5, 2/22/23
“Nevada runs some of the most secure, accessible and transparent elections in the country, and we're dedicated to ensuring voters are confident in that.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, Press Release, 2/5/24
“The Voter Registration Election Management System, we are implementing that project in April. That will help us implement top-down voter registration but also bring transparency to the process even more. So, we have as a state the picture of the data happening across the state.” – Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, 2News.com, 1/23/24
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