Hundreds of Iraqis protest alleged voting irregularities (outside Green Zo

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Hundreds of Iraqis protest alleged voting irregularities outside Baghdad's

Hundreds of Iraqis protest alleged voting irregularities outside Baghdad's Green Zone
By Associated Press, 2/6/2005 11:12


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) 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 team of independent lawyers is investigating those and other complaints in the city and will report back to the electoral commission.
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/037/world/Hundreds_of_Iraqis_protest_all:.shtml

[whistle]

2. Did any of those voting irregularities occur here in the U.S

[VegasWolf]

3. but everything was just hunky-dory inside the Geen Zone. n/t