LETTER: Stop nagging non-voters

SinCity Press Letter: Stop nagging non-voters By Michael Kubacki, Las Vegas July 18, 2026 – 9:01 p.m. Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley laments the less-than-20 percent turnout successful the caller primaries, and describes voting for elected officials arsenic “the astir ineffable close of being an American citizen” (July 12 Review-Journal). She is incorrect astir that. The astir ineffable close of our citizens is to beryllium near unsocial if they take not to enactment successful politics. It is particularly annoying for elected officials themselves to promote accrued voting. For immoderate politicians, much votes volition summation their chances of victory. Others payment erstwhile turnout is lower. This has thing to bash with the civic responsibilities they assertion to espouse. It is chiefly astir their ain electoral prospects. And finally, what is Mayor Berkley’s argument? How does it payment the assemblage politic if radical who take to cognize thing astir the candidates and issues are pressured to ballot anyway? And wherefore is it immoderate of her concern however citizens prioritize their interests and activities truthful agelong arsenic they unrecorded lawful and productive lives?