Urban boards of elections in Ohio lack black members


April 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

All but one of the urban counties in Ohio with large black populations have all-white boards overseeing elections in a state where lawsuits have alleged disenfranchisement of blacks.

An Associated Press survey shows Cuyahoga County as the only one of the eight Ohio counties with the highest percentages of blacks to have a black elections board member. No blacks currently serve on elections boards in Mahoning or Trumbull counties.

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