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HOLD Continued from A1 discrepancies are revealed. The recount is being conducted in each county by the statutory prescribed county canvassing board and the results are expected to be complete, at the earliest, by the close of business on Thursday. The recount is not the only stumbling block in declaring a new president. Voters in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties have been outspoken of their suspicions that there has been foul play at various polling precincts. “Our office has received about 100 complajnts ranging from disparate treatment by poll workers to voters being turned away from the polls at 7:00 p.m. when the polls closed,” said Pat Williams, staff aide to U.S. Congressman Alcee Hastings(D). “We’vealsohadcalls about State Troopers stopping guys on their way to the polls trying to delay them from voting.” Williams said other complaints that were forwarded to the Congressman’s office included: ballot boxes not being turned in confusion with names on the ballot (some people were under the impression that they were voting for Gore, but ended up voting for Pat Buchanan) and other problems with counting and receiving absentee ballots. She said Congressman Hastings has filed an affidavit and has asked the residents that have lodged complaints to come forward to sign it. The signatures then will be taken to the proper authorities to be investigated. “The Congressman has spoken to the Gore, campaign to get them to dispatch themselves and they are now here on the scene to check out the improprieties,” she added. NBC news reporter Tom Brokaw broadcast a report about nine missing ballot boxes in

Broward County. Outgoing Broward County Supervisor of Elections Jane Carroll fired back by saying nothing was missing. “There were 14 boxes of ballots from the Pembroke Pines area that took longer to relay because of heavy turnout,” said Carroll. Radio stations across Florida reported being drenched with calls from voters about allegations of irregularities they wimessed as they attempted to exercise their constitutional rights. General manager for WEDR 99 J AMZ Jerry Rushin said between Election Day (Nov. 7) and Wednesday (Nov. 8), he’s received about 150 complaints and finds the calls to be very disturbing, but it doesn’t surprise him. “The system does Black people like this to keep us from advancing,” he said. “If our candidate doesn’t win it would be disappointing because Blacks had a turnout of over 90 percent.” The Tom Joyner Morning Radio Show, aired on radio stations across the nation, took the initiative and used his syndicated morning talk show to register voters, but according to General manager of Tampa’s WTMPDr. Glenn Cherry, when some of those registered voters went to the polls they were denied the right to vote, because their race didn’t correspond with the information that was on their voting cards. When the registered voters went to vote they were turned away, he said. “From the calls our station has received it seems apparent that someone was trying to intimidate the voters,” said Dr. Cherry whose father (Charles Cherry) publishes the Daytona Times. “Our listeners called and said they were harassed at the polls and that the police were doing racial profiling around the precincts. We told our listeners to go ahead and vote and not let these tricks discourage them from vot-

ing.” Added to the other improprieties reported in Broward County was Quristina Strudwick who reported her complaint to Florida State Rep. Chris Smith. “I had a problem with the ballot, it was difficult for me to tell who I was voting for. I wanted to vote for Gore but it was hard to tell between him and Mr. Buchanan, so I called to report this,” she said. When three Black women tried to vote they were denied and told that they had not registered on time. “I took their registration application to the post office myself in the necessary time for them to be able to vote, and they were postedmarked,” said Andra Tucker, a pharmacist. They called the election office itself and were told that they had registered to late and they would have to wait until the next time. “Once this has been investigated they will find out that this was not right,” Tucker said. There was some good news to report out of Florida, however. Miriam Oliphant, an African American, won her bid for Supervisor of Elections in Broward County, over her Republican opponent Rose Cossick. Former Supervisor Jane Carroll a Republican white woman will be retiring at the end of the year. Oliphant said when she ran in the primary some of her ballot boxes were missing, and said what is going on now is brainless. “This is foolish and if she (Carroll) had implemented good technology this situation wouldn’t have occurred,” said Oliphant. “People shouldn’t have to wait three and four hours to get elections results.” She said the fust thing she’s going to do when she gets sworn in is go through her new office with a fine tooth comb and clean it up and do whatever it takes to restore the public’s confidence.

WINSTON Continued from A1 tingent of Black leadership around the state. “I told the candidates they had to do more than just go to a couple of Black churches and call it a day,” said Winston as he reflected on highlights from the political strategy that would later gamer O’Bannon a 1996 win. “I let them know they can’t take the Black vote for granted.” O’Bannon returned the favor when he asked Winston to chair the Indiana Democratic Party last year, making him the first AfricanAmerican to head the organization as chairman. Under his leadership the democratic party has secured 63 mayoral races including Mayor Bart Peterson’s defeat over Sue Ann

Gilroy, which marked the first time a democrat took control over the city in 36 years. “He has a fare combination of strategic and organizational genius,” said Mayor Peterson. “He has a clear sense of how to conduct a local campaign on the precinct level and recognizes every voter is important.” Winston also is cognizant of how important it is to bring Blacks into the political fold. “When the state’s Black population is roughly seven percent and nearly double or 13 percent of the Black vote goes to democratic candidates, I think its important we are represented in (various political structures).” In addition to referring numerous African-Americans to political commissions and boards, he has institutionalized the Hurley Goodall Minority Internship Pro-

gram, a paid-minority internship to enable students of color to work within the state democratic headquarters. “I want to get people involved. We all have talents, and one of the things I do best is match those talents with our needs,” he said. Future goals for Winston include building up effective caucuses. As for right now, he’s got an inauguration to plan. Not one to let politics rule his life, Winston is a family man, grounded in his faith. He and his wife, Charlitta, a governmental relations manager for a firm that manages state lotteries, attend Northside New Era Baptist Church and have a 1-year-old daughter, Chloe Margaret. “They are my rock and at the end of die day they let me know there is more to life than just who wins and who loses.” he said.

BET Continued from A1 discontinued both magazines last summer. Speculation suggests that Johnson is interested in increasing his leveraging strength in attempting buy USAir. “He’s moving into new challenges,” said one BET employee. “He wants to make his mark in other, higher arenas.” Although the deal catapults Johnson into new financial strata, there is some remorse about the loss of the nation’s largest Blackowned cable entertainment com-

pany. “I am both happy and sad at the same time. I am happy that an African-American firm is commanding major league dollars,” said George Curry, president of the American Society of Magazine Editors, NNPA syndicated columnist and former editor-in-chief of Emerge: Black America’s Newsmagazine. “But I am sad that, at the same time, we are losing control of our largest media company.” A.J. Liebling, the famous media critic, said, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who

own it. Any way you cut it, this is a loss of ownership.” The deal allows current management of BET to remain in the hands of current senior management over the next five years. Viacom owns CBS Broadcasting, MTV, VH-1 and Infinity Broadcasting, to name a few. Company leaders say that the new deal will bring vast industry resources to BET and that Viacom’s advertising sales will see an immediate boost as a result of cross marketing.

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