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Nevada’s election system stayed up during massive statewide cyberattack. Here’s why.

The Nevada secretary of state’s office moved to a top-down voter registration system that collects and stores voter preregistration and registration information and is used by all 17 county clerks.

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A bill sought to take election cases out of Carson City courts. What happened?

The First Judicial District Court has only two judges and no public access to online court documents or hearings. Frustration over the lack of transparency on some of the state’s most important cases led Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) to sponsor AB490, a bill in the 2025 legislative session that would have moved initiative petition disputes to other courts that have electronic access to documents and hearings.

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