Bill to change vote would hurt Nevada

Ray Murphy, Las Vegas

Saturday, April 25, 2009 | 2:04 a.m.

The Democratic Assembly just passed a bill stating that all five of Nevada’s electoral college votes are to be cast for the presidential candidate who wins the national vote, even if that candidate loses in Nevada. Essentially your vote for president would no longer count.

All the Democrats voted for this bill, so they’re are saying that there is nothing special or unique about Nevada — we’re the same as every other state. If enough other states pass similar legislation, and this bill were to go into effect, presidential candidates will have no reason to adopt any of Nevada’s issues as their own, and they will merely vote in favor of the things that big-state voters care about.

Have these Democrats ever heard of Yucca Mountain? Thanks to President Barack Obama, there will be no dumping at Yucca. And why is that? Because candidate Obama wanted our five electoral votes.

Be honest. Do you really believe that Sen. Obama of Illinois cared one iota about nuclear waste being dumped in the desert at a place called Yucca?

I would wager that every one of those Democrats campaigned against Yucca Mountain dumping; they’ve won that battle, but they’re too ignorant to realize how they won. Now the Democrats want to take away your five electoral votes largely because they still haven’t gotten over Bush v. Gore.

The Democratic majority just voted to make our presidential votes worthless. How dare they? Our votes for Assembly members are not worthless yet. We should use them to vote out everyone who voted for this bill.