Rate a 5. Yahoo! story on protests of Iraq Election "Irregularities"

[Eric J in MN]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20050206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_election_protest

Iraqis Protest Said Voting Irregularities
Sun Feb 6,11:23 AM ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqis shouted slogans and waved Iraqi flags Sunday outside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone to protest alleged irregularities they say prevented tens of thousands of people in Mosul from voting in last weekend's landmark elections.

The demonstrators were mainly Iraqi Christians, Turkomen and Yazidis — members of a small religion in the north — who say polling centers never opened in their neighborhoods in the turbulent northern city and surrounding Ninevah province.

Electoral commission officials in Baghdad have acknowledged that many polling sites never opened Jan. 30 or opened late because of what they said were security concerns. Some sites that opened could not be supplied with ballots and other election materials, officials have said.

...A spokesman for Chaldean and Assyrian parties, William Warda, said the irregularities prevented 200,000 people from voting.

[Clark2008]

1. Does anyone know where Blackwell and Harris were on Jan. 30?

:shrug:

[Eric J in MN]

3. LOL (nt)

nt

[peekaloo]

2. done