 As Secretary of State, Heller made Nevada the first state in the nation to implement an auditable paper trail to electronic voting machines.Heller decided to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2005 in Nevada's 2nd congressional district, after ten-year incumbent Republican Jim Gibbons decided to run for Governor of Nevada.On August 15, 2006, he won the Republican primary with 36% of the vote.