shades of Ohio vote in Sadr City...NBC Richard Engels said.......

[ElsewheresDaughter]

"in Sadr City "the slums" didn't have enough ballots and people were turned away and not permitted to vote" and "in Ramadi where the population is over 300,000 only 1,400 voted"

this election is a sham with NO monitors bush/alwari can claim anything they wish to claim!

on edit: Richaard Engel has been in Bagdad for more than 2 years

[okieinpain]

1. yeah, except there the people will let their feelings be known.

[slor]

2. No No No...We all saw the Dancing Iraqis!

And freedom is marching in Iraq. Did you ever stop to think that the Iraqis in Sadr City did not vote because they do not know how to dance?

[LynnTheDem]

5. LOL!

Nope, I never thought of that. :D

[leftchick]

3. and Mosul had Ohio like "glitches" as well....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-mosu.html

~snip~

But Mr. Goran said that four Kurdish districts outside of Mosul - Shaikhan, Bartila, Bashika and Karakosh (also known as Hamdani) - did not receive ballot boxes or supplies, so Kurds were unable to vote there. A Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman, Mahdi Harki, said that the population in those areas was about 300,000, with at least 100,000 of those eligible to vote.

"I am afraid it was a dirty trick against the Kurdish vote," Mr. Harki said.

Mr. Goran met General Ham to discuss the problem. He said General Ham wanted to help but that it was the responsibility of the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq to ask the military to transport the voting materials.

Mr. Kazar , the election official, said that he knew of the problem early in the morning and had asked the Americans to move the ballots.

Mr. Goran, who is a Kurd, said he believed the motivation behind the mixup was that the expected high turnout of Kurdish voters would tilt the results to heavily favor Kurds, and upset the political balance in the city. "The Kurds will have the whole percentage of the vote," he said. "There are some people here who do not want that," said Mr. Goran.

... sounds like meriKan demacracy all right!

[papau]

4. it is not the vote - it is who counts - that determines power -Stalin/Bush

:-(