Low Black Turnout Predicted
Voter Apathy May Affect Districting Election
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Post Staff Writer
Two rallies designed to ex
pand support for district re
presentation among West
Charlotte residents resulted in
disappointingly small crowds
after considerable planning
and publicity by two Westside
neighborhood organizations.
A March 31 rally planned
by the predominately white
Westside Community Organi
zation (WCO) attracted an
audience of only 90. A similar
rally, co-sponsored by the
Northwest Community Action
Association (NWCAA)-a fe
deration of 17 black neighbor y
hood organizations-and the
Charlotte Post on April 7,
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proaucea only 'M listeners.
Furthermore, election bo
ard office data shows that
only 15 to 20 percent of voters
in the northwest and west
historically vote in bond elec
tions. Since this is the area of
the city most supportive of
districting, a larger turn-out
will be necessary if victory is
to be gained. Southeast Char
lotte. t|ie area of the city most
opposed to districting, will
have an expected voter turn
out of 35 percent. If these
voting patterns hold true on
Tuesday, supporters of 7-4
districting are concerned their
effort may have been lost.
In order to offset these
developments, WCO president
Sam Smith reporte<lly said his
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organization has sent 100 dis
tricting supporter into nerth
and northwest Charlotte dur
ing the past weekend ι April
9-10) in a door-to-door effort to
distribute WCO literature that
explains district representa
tiori and its presumed bene
fits.
WCO s weekend blitz re
portedly focused on Thomas
boro, Hoskins and black neigh
borhoods which Smith noted
are the areas where "the most
underrepresented people
live." People in such areas,
Smith reportedly continued,
"should have the biggest rea
son to vote for the (proposed
districting) plan..."
WCO attempted to reach
25,000 Westside voters in its
weekend effort. Further plans
call for distributing pamphlets
in a few commercial locations
on the eastside in and around
Eastland Mall and similar
locations, telephoning regis
tered voters and forming a
speakers bureau to further
educate the public about dis
tricting.
L.C. Coleman, president of
NWCAA, said his organization
has received the support of the
Charlotte Ministerial Alliance
Association. According to
Coleman, tj>e clergy associa
tion has offered to finance the
cost of transporting voters to
the polls on April 19, pledged
to express support for district
representation from their pwl
pits and generally aid in other
voter education endeavors.
Both Smith and Coleman
expressed concern over the
historically low voter turnout
record Charlotteans have had
for bond elections. This, of
course, refers to the Nature
Museum's Discovery Place
bond and the water-sewer
bonds that will also appear on
the April 19 ballot. Coleman
said, "It is fairly certain, if
the voter turn-out does not
significantly exceed the tradi
tional bond election vote level,
district representation will
fail to win."
Smith and Coleman's con
cerns are real since southeast
Charlotte is expected to op
paat dttrictfcg.
More significantly. Council
man Harvey Gantt warned at
a districting rally recently. If
at least 25 percent of register
ed black don't vote district
representation will lose no
matter how whites vote."
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sistant Professor of Education
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and child development game
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The full-color game, placed
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I'niversity It occured to me
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cross the students." he said
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tor in early childhood educa
tion and director of the early
learning center for children al
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