LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Early in-person voting has now ended in Nevada. If you still want to make your voice heard, you’ll need to send in your ballot or show up at a polling station on Election Day.

On Friday, the man in charge of Nevada elections, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, answered questions from local and national media about our process and making sure it’s fair and secure.

There is a lot of attention on Nevada this election as a crucial state. Observers from the Department or Justice and the FBI will be here to make sure there are no problems.

Aguilar says that so far there have been no problems at the polling stations, nor when it comes to cyber security.

“Voting will be safe and secure and the results will be accurate … We welcome observers, anyone who wants to come and analyze how we do things here in Nevada, because we do them the right way,” Aguilar argued.

Aguilar says Nevada is an open book. It has one of the most secure voting systems in the country and an electoral plan in the works for the past 18 months.

“I have to be careful not to reveal our full security plan for many reasons, but I can tell you that we are in contact with the sheriffs in our counties. We have the Election Integrity Task Force, which is made up of federal, state and local law enforcement. We communicate daily about issues,” Aguilar said.

Aguilar says the mail-in ballots and signature identification system are working as intended.

“There are several databases that have signatures for us to extract. If the signature matches, it goes into processing. If not, it goes into a bipartisan review. Both a Democrat and a Republican must agree that the signatures match for it to go into processing,” Aguilar explained.

A new system is in place this year, providing an extra layer of security by catching people who try to vote twice.

“There have been some double-vote issues that we’ve been able to catch… If someone goes from Nye County to Carson City and voted, we can catch that voter trying to double-vote from county to county and if a person is -mails in the ballot and then shows up at a polling station, because the system is real-time, immediately goes into an investigation,” Aguilar described.

Although we do not yet know the exact number of double votes in this election, the Secretary of State has revealed that they have three full-time investigators working on these issues. They say sometimes it’s an accident and sometimes it’s intentional. If someone is found to be double voting on purpose, they will be arbitrated for criminal charges.

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