Many Black voters in South Florida wary of election system
Friday, August 6, 2004 at 12:45PM
TheSpook
Black Churches in South Florida are stockpiling absentee ballots.
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist person," Murray said,
"but the more I hear, I think there might be something funny going on.
You don't know who to trust. I think there's a better chance of my vote
being counted if I vote early and absentee." Thornton and Murray's
suspicions about using touch-screen machines to vote this fall reflect
a racial divide that is already showing up in polls and is leading many
community leaders to boost efforts to get out the vote, even if it
takes absentee ballots. A recent poll, in which 600 Floridians were
interviewed between July 15 and 19, found about one-third of whites
said they lacked confidence in the voting system, but two-thirds of
African-Americans had little or no confidence. The poll was conducted
for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Florida Times-Union. In
response, black churches in South Florida are stockpiling absentee ballots. [more]
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