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Florida's African-American voters upset over disqualified ballots
From CNN Correspondent Bill Delaney
December 4, 2000
Web posted at: 12:49 p.m. EST (1749 GMT)
RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- The kind of victory they were raising the
rooftops about at Hilltop Baptist Church on Sunday concerned matters of a
heavenly nature. When it comes to the race for the White House, there was
a sense of defeat.
Hilltop Baptist's pastor, Griffen Davis, said amid heavily Democratic
Riviera Beach's highest turnout ever, about 15 percent of votes were
disqualified.
"I'm hurt, I'm disgusted. I'm frustrated," he said. "This is democracy at its
worst, OK?"
African-American turnout in Florida was 65 percent higher in 2000 than in
the 1996 presidential race. But statewide, as many as 20 percent of their
ballots may not have been counted.
In Little Riviera Beach, about 1,000 votes weren't counted after ballot cards
were ruled invalid, either for being punched too often or not distinctly
enough. Voter Jerry Williams said though he studied a sample ballot sent
to him in the mail, he remained frustrated by Palm Beach County's butterfly
ballot and by voting equipment that didn't work -- in particular, the stylus
used to mark the punch-card ballots.
"A lot of them were bent so that you couldn't get it all the way down through
there," Williams said.
Failed ballots are not unique to African-American precincts in Florida, of
course. Republicans point out at least four other states -- Idaho, Illinois,
Georgia, and Wyoming -- that had higher rates of spoiled ballots than
Florida.
But in Florida, every single vote mattered, and the high rate of disqualified
ballots could spur even greater turnout in majority-black precincts in future
elections.
"I think they'll go out double force, if for nothing else but for revenge against
the Bushes. Excuse me -- I had to say that," said the Rev. Kenneth
Henderson.
In Riviera Beach, meanwhile, this year's results have been a hard lesson in
the power of the vote.
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