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Cleveland, Maple Heights voters to decide fate of city traffic light cameras at polls on November 4, Cleveland has a disproportionate number of them in the Black community, Ohio Supreme Court ordered Maple Heights to put measure before voters after city council refused, East Cleveland residents voted to keep their traffic cameras in 2011, Cleveland's red light-traffic cameras were deemed unconstitutional by a state appellate court earlier this year

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog   K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Voters in the majority Black cities of Cleveland and Maple Heights will decide at the polls on tomorrow, Nov 4, if the red light and speed cameras that take the place of police officers to ticket people for traffic infractions will be eliminated by charter amendments. The Cleveland initiative is dubbed Issue 35 on the ballot and a vote of yes would eliminate the controversial traffic cameras, while a vote of no would keep them, at least for now. Residents in both cities presented necessary signatures to the respective city councils' to have the Cuyahoga County Board of El