Nick Lima

Registrar and Director of Elections, City of Cranston, Rhode Island

Nick Lima has served as Registrar and Director of Elections for the City of Cranston, Rhode Island’s second largest city, since January 2017, and has been the city’s chief elections administrator for eight statewide elections. He has successfully lobbied state election agencies for increased grant funding for election administration and improved cybersecurity at the municipal level, and participated on task forces related to elections cybersecurity with representatives from multiple state and federal agencies. He coordinated Cranston’s 2020 Census Complete Count Committee, and was the 2021-2022 redistricting coordinator for the city.

Nick is a member of the Rhode Island Town and City Clerks’ Association and chair of its Elections Committee. He is a current member of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Planning Committee. He served on the Secretary of State’s 2018 Elections Cybersecurity Planning Task Group, 2018 HAVA Task Force, the RFP review and design committee for the 2019 overhaul of the Central Voter Registration System, 2020 HAVA Task Force, 2020 COVID-19 Elections Task Force; and the state Board of Elections 2019-2020 Risk-Limiting Audit Pilot work group. He is a participant in the MS/EI-ISAC, and is a current member of the Election Assistance Commission’s Local Leadership Council as well as the EAC’s Standards Board. He is a member of the Election Verification Network, and was recently appointed to the Rhode Island Senate Special Commission to Study Non-Plurality Voting Methods and Runoff Elections.

A U.S. Army veteran and graduate of Rhode Island College with a bachelor’s degree in communications, Lima is a lifelong Rhode Islander who was previously a baseball broadcaster for the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. He resides in Coventry, where he serves on the Coventry Fire District Board of Directors. His wife, Hillary, works in marketing and currently serves as Coventry’s Town Council President.