Attorney Notes Page 22
Working File
January 1, 1983
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primary in 1982, a white candidate who
received votes from 14t of black voters
yron, and in the 1980 general election, a
white candidate got votes from 2* of black
voters and won. In Durham County, in the
1 978 and 1982 primaries, the only con-
tested elections analyzed, the white
cand idates who \ron got votes f rom less
than 5t of black voters. Ex 16(a) and
'l 6(d). In the Mecklenburg County Senate
general election in 1982, the leading
white candidate received votes from only
5t of black voters and won. There is,
thus r rlo support in the record for
appellantsr assertion that white candi-
dates need black support to win. App. Br.
34. Since blacks must single shot vote to
have any chance of electing candidates of
their choice, and since white candidates
do not need black suPPort to win, the
Solicitor Generalrs assertion that blacks