Many Iraqis confused ahead of January vote

[Moloch]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - With seven weeks to go before landmark polls, Iraq’s electoral body is stepping up a campaign to inform voters of their rights, but widespread ignorance remains amongst the electorate, interviews show.

Via a multi-million-dollar campaign on television and radio, newspapers, billboards, posters and seminars, the Independent Electoral Commission is trying to reach out to Iraq’s estimated 14 million potential voters, some 55 percent of the population.

It wants to inform them about how the electoral process will work and generate enthusiasm for an event many fear could be severely disrupted by insurgent attacks or the threat of them.

The elections, scheduled for Jan. 30, will be Iraq’s first fully democratic polls in decades -- the last proper vote before Saddam Hussein came to power was in the late 1950s.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6701777/

[ClintonTyree]

1. Sounds like the "heartland" of America..............

"but widespread ignorance remains amongst the electorate, interviews show."
It was widespread ignorance by our "traditional values" folks in the "heartland of America" that led to the reselection of George Bush as pResident.
Iraq has no monopoly on widespread ingorance.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1065344