Term Limits Nix Some Candidates RENO, NV (KUNR) - The state Supreme Court has ruled several
candidates shouldn't even be a part of Tuesday's primary
election and cannot serve if elected because of term limits. So
perhaps it's fitting that a number of Nevadans who normally vote
don't intend to be there either.
Based on early balloting, election officials are predicting
fewer than one-fifth of Nevada's registered voters will go to the
polls.
Secretary of State Ross Miller estimates about 15 percent of
Nevada's nearly 1.1 million active registered voters will end up
casting ballots statewide. If that happens, he believes that would
be a record low turnout.

Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax says they'd be lucky to get
15 percent in his county, which encompasses Las Vegas and nearly
two-thirds of those registered voters.
Turnout should be a bit better in Washoe County, where longtime
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio of Reno is trying to
fend off a challenge from the right by ex-Assemblywoman Sharron
Angle. Angle is an anti-tax activist who nearly knocked off
Republican Congressman Dean Heller in the 2006 primary in Nevada's
2nd District.

This time, Heller is up against James Smack, a
Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul-backer who lives in Fallon and owns a
pawn shop in the Reno-Sparks area.
Despite those races, Washoe County Registrar Dan Burk is
predicting a turnout between 20 percent and 25 percent - down from
31 percent last time around. He says he's disappointed in what he
describes as "such sheer disinterest in this election."
Several candidates remain on the ballot despite a recent state
Supreme Court ruling that they have been term-limited out of jobs -
including Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury and university
system regents Thalia Dondero and Howard Rosenberg.
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