But King hasn't done her recount yet this year. She said she hasn't been able to reach the other members of the canvassing board. They won't return my calls. We still have black folks here who are afraid to go to the polls. It's about control.
Whites are a minority here, but they have the power.
We cannot just shrug our shoulders and say, 'Oh, that happens all the time. . . . That is absolutely unacceptable. It is an American tragedy. Florida's postelection chaos did bridge some ethnic divides. County election records show that the Buchanan vote was second-highest in the county's black precincts of Riviera Beach and Lake Worth.