Clinton gets Nevada’s votes

Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Nevada's four electoral votes for President Clinton are on their way.

Four long-time Democrats on Monday officially cast the votes during a 17-minute ceremony in the old Nevada Supreme Court chambers on the second floor of the state Capitol. The voting was supervised by Secretary of State Dean Heller.

The votes will be sent to the U.S. Senate, where they will be tabulated along with votes from the other states on Jan. 6, the date the president is officially elected.

The Nevada electors were Charles Waterman, a Las Vegas attorney who has served as Democratic chairman in Mineral, Douglas and Clark counties; Assemblyman Douglas Bache, also of Las Vegas; former state Democratic Chairwoman Virginia Cain, and Marie Ripps, who has been involved in Democratic activities for 36 years in Southern Nevada.

Cain is the only one who served as an elector before -- in 1992 when Clinton also captured the state.

The four electors were chosen at the state Democratic Convention and were bound, under state law, to vote for Clinton. Clinton edged former Sen. Robert Dole in Nevada by a margin of 4,730 votes. Clinton received 203,974 votes and Dole 199,244.