Nick Lima
@nicklima.org
City of Cranston Registrar/Director of Elections. Rhode Island College alum and Newport Gulls Hall of Famer. https://vote.ri.gov to register to #vote or check your status. #Protect2026
Our polling locations are set up as best as possible to serve voters - particularly those with access issues. This morning, our office inspected four of our 2026 polls with the R.I. Board of Elections, R.I. Governor's Commission on Disabilities, Disability Rights R.I., and Cranston School Dept.
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our polling locations are set up as best as possible to serve voters - particularly those with access issues. This morning, our office inspected four of our 2026 polls with the R.I. Board of Elections, R.I. Governor's Commission on Disabilities, Disability Rights R.I., and Cranston School Dept.
Hard to believe just over a decade ago I was calling Tommy Edman and Will Smith's Newport Gulls championship games, and now they're out there winning multiple World Series titles. What a game... extra innings in Game 7! Congratulations, gentleman!
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hard to believe just over a decade ago I was calling Tommy Edman and Will Smith's Newport Gulls championship games, and now they're out there winning multiple World Series titles. What a game... extra innings in Game 7! Congratulations, gentleman!
Last week, prior to the shutdown, I travelled to Washington, D.C. with local election official colleagues from five Rhode Island cities and towns (and many dozens more from around the country) to ask Congress for more consistent funding to support our election security and infrastructure.
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Last week, prior to the shutdown, I travelled to Washington, D.C. with local election official colleagues from five Rhode Island cities and towns (and many dozens more from around the country) to ask Congress for more consistent funding to support our election security and infrastructure.
Spending Sunday morning in Boston at the National Conference of State Legislatures 2025 Legislative Summit for Elections SATs: Security, Accuracy, Transparency conference. @ncslorg.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Spending Sunday morning in Boston at the National Conference of State Legislatures 2025 Legislative Summit for Elections SATs: Security, Accuracy, Transparency conference. @ncslorg.bsky.social
Red Sox are rallying in the 6th and it's totally because @hillaryvlima.bsky.social got our Del's.
July 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Red Sox are rallying in the 6th and it's totally because @hillaryvlima.bsky.social got our Del's.
Happy 110th birthday to the oldest voter in Cranston, oldest living World War II veteran in the United States, and oldest person in Rhode Island: Mr. Henry Polichetti, seen here voting in-person at our Glen Hills Elementary School polling location in the November 2024 General Election.
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy 110th birthday to the oldest voter in Cranston, oldest living World War II veteran in the United States, and oldest person in Rhode Island: Mr. Henry Polichetti, seen here voting in-person at our Glen Hills Elementary School polling location in the November 2024 General Election.
It's that annual time of the Rhode Island General Assembly's legislative session when my old friend Bill - Bill Tracker for those who don't know him well - starts blowing up my inbox with good news for elections administration.
June 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It's that annual time of the Rhode Island General Assembly's legislative session when my old friend Bill - Bill Tracker for those who don't know him well - starts blowing up my inbox with good news for elections administration.
2025 Memorial Day commemorations in Coventry.
May 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
2025 Memorial Day commemorations in Coventry.
Incredibly proud of my wife, Hillary Lima, on her graduation today with a Master in Public Administration from the University of Rhode Island. She earned this degree at night, all while working a full-time day job and serving as Coventry Town Council President. Congratulations!
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Incredibly proud of my wife, Hillary Lima, on her graduation today with a Master in Public Administration from the University of Rhode Island. She earned this degree at night, all while working a full-time day job and serving as Coventry Town Council President. Congratulations!
The day my elections portfolio folder finally falls apart will be a sad day. At first the stickers were cosmetic, but after 8 1/2 years running elections and carrying this folder around the stickers are increasingly becoming structural.
May 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The day my elections portfolio folder finally falls apart will be a sad day. At first the stickers were cosmetic, but after 8 1/2 years running elections and carrying this folder around the stickers are increasingly becoming structural.
Thank you to @rihouseofreps.bsky.social State Government and Elections Committee for voting tonight to advance 10 (!) good election administration improvement bills to the House Floor, which hold widespread support from state and local election officials to improve elections for all RI voters!
April 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you to @rihouseofreps.bsky.social State Government and Elections Committee for voting tonight to advance 10 (!) good election administration improvement bills to the House Floor, which hold widespread support from state and local election officials to improve elections for all RI voters!
Testifying tonight alongside many local election officials on a number of good election administration reform bills at the RI Senate Judiciary Committee meeting under Chairman @mattlamountain.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Testifying tonight alongside many local election officials on a number of good election administration reform bills at the RI Senate Judiciary Committee meeting under Chairman @mattlamountain.bsky.social
Testifying at the RI House State Government and Elections Committee alongside state and local election officials like @risecstate.bsky.social @greggamore.bsky.social, RI BOE, and local board of canvassers colleagues. Over 20 election bills on the agenda (including quite a few really good ones)!
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Testifying at the RI House State Government and Elections Committee alongside state and local election officials like @risecstate.bsky.social @greggamore.bsky.social, RI BOE, and local board of canvassers colleagues. Over 20 election bills on the agenda (including quite a few really good ones)!
2025 Providence St. Patrick's Day Parade
March 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
2025 Providence St. Patrick's Day Parade
I traveled cross country to San Diego for an elections administration conference (PLEJ: Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions) and who do I run into? @engr4democracy.bsky.social from @universityofri.bsky.social presenting their continuing excellent work to improve election processes!
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I traveled cross country to San Diego for an elections administration conference (PLEJ: Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions) and who do I run into? @engr4democracy.bsky.social from @universityofri.bsky.social presenting their continuing excellent work to improve election processes!
All you need to know right here about the morale and state of local election administrators in 2025. There are few professions in all of civil service that have been so underfunded, understaffed, ignored in their policy reform needs, yet have so much placed on their shoulders. This is unsustainable.
February 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
All you need to know right here about the morale and state of local election administrators in 2025. There are few professions in all of civil service that have been so underfunded, understaffed, ignored in their policy reform needs, yet have so much placed on their shoulders. This is unsustainable.
And now your moment of zen.
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
And now your moment of zen.
Cranston really broke the mold when they built this neighborhood (across Spectacle Pond from Twin Oaks) - even street addresses on the odd side of the road, out of sequence, or BOTH. This causes election administration, mail delivery, and E911 response issues; GIS allows us to easily document them.
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Cranston really broke the mold when they built this neighborhood (across Spectacle Pond from Twin Oaks) - even street addresses on the odd side of the road, out of sequence, or BOTH. This causes election administration, mail delivery, and E911 response issues; GIS allows us to easily document them.
GIS is an election administrator's best friend... with one glance we can see every polling location, every address that is out of sequence/wrong side, zoning, overlapping precinct, ward, and state district lines, and other data layers to solve voter registration data issues.
January 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
GIS is an election administrator's best friend... with one glance we can see every polling location, every address that is out of sequence/wrong side, zoning, overlapping precinct, ward, and state district lines, and other data layers to solve voter registration data issues.
It was an honor to be sworn in tonight for a fifth term as #Cranston's Registrar and Director of Elections.
Thank you to the entire Cranston City Council and Board of Canvassers for your continued support, and congratulations to all of the elected officials inaugurated this week.
Thank you to the entire Cranston City Council and Board of Canvassers for your continued support, and congratulations to all of the elected officials inaugurated this week.
January 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It was an honor to be sworn in tonight for a fifth term as #Cranston's Registrar and Director of Elections.
Thank you to the entire Cranston City Council and Board of Canvassers for your continued support, and congratulations to all of the elected officials inaugurated this week.
Thank you to the entire Cranston City Council and Board of Canvassers for your continued support, and congratulations to all of the elected officials inaugurated this week.
Annual chicken parm night.
December 22, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Annual chicken parm night.
Lucky timing just randomly driving by from a meeting this morning..
December 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Lucky timing just randomly driving by from a meeting this morning..
It was a high honor to attend and observe today's meeting of the Rhode Island Electoral College at the State House, formally concluding our state's role in a presidential election administration process that, for local election officials, began over a year ago.
December 17, 2024 at 9:52 PM
It was a high honor to attend and observe today's meeting of the Rhode Island Electoral College at the State House, formally concluding our state's role in a presidential election administration process that, for local election officials, began over a year ago.
Cool cruise. Great mozzarella sticks.
December 16, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Cool cruise. Great mozzarella sticks.