Kerry Suggests Rivals Might Suppress Black Votes
/Senator John Kerry suggested on Saturday that Republicans might be
trying to suppress black votes in key electoral battlegrounds, pledging
to an audience of the capital's black elite to make sure that "every
vote is counted and every vote counts." "We are not going to stand by
and allow another million African-American votes to go uncounted in
this election," Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, told
some 3,000 people at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual
gala at the Washington Convention Center. "We are not going to stand by
and allow acts of voter suppression.'' Drawing the only standing
ovation of his 35-minute speech, he said: "We are hearing those things
already. What they did in Florida in 2000, some say they may be
planning to do this year in battleground states all across this
country." [more 
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