Vote Tally May Take Awhile in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq_election_results

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iraqis may have to wait weeks to learn the winners of this weekend's election, with guerrilla attacks and other factors expected to slow the vote tally, a foreign election adviser in Baghdad said on Thursday.


In the interest of transparency, some early results will trickle out as ballots are counted, but Iraq (news - web sites)'s Independent Electoral Commission won't be able to declare winners until a painstaking count is finished, said the adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


"This isn't the type of election where you have a big tote board somewhere and you're marking the returns as they come in," he said in a telephone interview. "It won't be on Sunday night."


Iraq's style of election makes it especially difficult to call the results quickly or to question voters leaving the polls to predict an early winner, as is done in the United States.

[shoelace414]

1. shouldn't take too long to count the few votes they'll get.

[soup]

6. That was my first thought, too. n/t

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[pinerow]

2. Why is that not a surprise...???

nt

[mordarlar]

3. It takes a while to change a ballot n/t

[neweurope]

4. You beat me to it *g*

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[WritersBlock]

5. Hey, at least they might learn who the actual winners are.

They'll be one up on our presidential election if they do.

[ugarte]

7. After all the lies, who will believe this vote is anything but rigged?

Even if 3 people vote, they'll spin it as an 80% turnout.

[WritersBlock]

9. Sorry...

I should have put the <sarcasm> tag in on my original post.

I am under no illusion that they'll ever know who actually won the election in Iraq, either.

[Jacobin]

8. Yes. They'll have to glue the blown up ballots back together

Very time consuming process

[cthrumatrix]

10. other larger countries take a day or two... there is zero reason

for this....except fraud