Iraqi Officials Report Mistakes in Voter Registration in Kirkuk

[sabra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/international/middleeast/12iraq.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1134361729-q1aImzBkdZMXJQ9Bt8Ue1g

Iraqi Officials Report Mistakes in Voter Registration in Kirkuk

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 11 - With just four days to go until parliamentary elections, the Iraqi electoral commission said Sunday that it had found irregularities in voter registration in the volatile northern city of Kirkuk.

The discovery was the first instance of an election irregularity announced by the commission as the country prepares for the vote on Thursday.

The commission said experts conducting an audit of voter lists found that there had been an unexpected surge in voter registration in the area. When the experts scrutinized the registration forms, the commission said in a written statement, they found that many had been filled out incorrectly. Some were missing signatures and others had more than one signature. In some cases, the same name appeared on several forms.

Adel al-Lami, the director general of the electoral commission, said in an interview on Sunday that in his view the voter registration irregularities were technical errors. "Please stay away from political conspiracies," he said. "There's no political reason for this."

[geomon666]

1. What a shock.

Maybe after the farce we can just drop the name Iraq and call it what it is....Iran II.

[cantstandbush]

2. This is how the voting numbers will be said to be increased.

All part of the plot to show "progress."

[daleo]

3. The turnout will be be 200 percent. n/t

[Pachamama]

4. Wow, I guess we really have brought "our democracy" to them!

Is Kirkuk their Ohio?