In what has been described as a “testy” exchange with a reporter, Bill Clinton said he supported a Nevada lawsuit that would close down recently established polling places along the Las Vegas strip. Clinton said his wives campaign was not involved directly in the suit but that the cause was right because the move would disproportionately award delegates to these polling sites

From a blog post on the New York Sun:

“Do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give everybody who voted in a casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct? Did you know that?” Mr. Clinton said in a testy exchange with a television reporter, Mark Matthews of KGO. “What happened is nobody understood what had happened. … Now, everybody’s saying, ‘Oh they don’t want us to vote.’ What they really tried to do was to set up a deal where their votes counted five times, maybe even more.”

Last Friday, several individuals and a teachers union sued to prevent caucuses from being held in nine casinos along the Las Vegas Strip. The special sites were set up to make it easier for casino employees to vote at midday Saturday.

The plaintiffs argue that the sites allocate a disproportionately high number of delegates to one group of voters. More than 700 out of roughly 10,000 delegates to Nevada’s presidential nominating convention could be selected at the casino caucuses.