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Reform Party quiet in Nevada

Monday, Aug. 2, 1999 | 8:51 a.m.

Nobody from Nevada attended the party's national convention in Michigan, where founder Ross Perot's candidate for chairman lost to the candidate backed by Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.

Voter registration statistics show just 400 people have registered as members of the Reform Party with the bulk of those - 286 - in Clark County.

But state Chairwoman Janet Alicesun of Las Vegas says, "people will get more interested closer to the elections."

Alicesun said she plans to build the party membership closer to the elections in 2000, and hopes to have a Reform Party candidate on the Nevada ballot.

The party's current status is a far cry from 1992 when it maintained a Nevada office and 132,580 Nevadans voted for Perot. Four years later, 43,986 Nevadans voted for Perot.

Nearly 3 percent of Nevada's 893,061 registered voters are registered with minor parties - Libertarian, Green Party, Independent American Party, Natural Law Party, Reform Party and others.

The 400 Reform Party registrants are the smallest minor party group among the five leading minor parties.

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