Iraq Election Results Available Tomorrow (Sunday)

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq Feb 12, 2005 — Iraqi officials will announce the final results of the Jan. 30 national elections on Sunday, a spokesman for the election commission said.

Farid Ayar said on Al-Arabiya television Saturday that the commission would meet Sunday morning to finalize some unspecified issues and then announce the final figures in the afternoon. The results will be considered official after three days.

"We will give three days to verify the results, hear any disputes, and then they will be officially declared final," Ayar said. "All the numbers will be announced tomorrow."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=493984

[neweurope]

1. "finalize some unspecified issues"? Either they have the number or they

don't.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

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[doxieone]

4. Iraqi Poll (National Election) Results Due on Sunday

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4261035.stm
Iraqi poll results due on Sunday


The results of last month's national elections in Iraq are to be announced on Sunday.

A spokesman for the Iraqi election commission, Farid Ayar, said the announcement would be made at 1600 local time (1300 GMT).

He said objections would then be heard over a three-day period before the results were officially confirmed.

The announcement came after another day of violence in Iraq which saw at least 19 people killed.


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*** This is from BBC yet our media doesn't seem to be reporting on it yet.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. As expected, the United Alliance will win; the Bushies have a new angle

From The Nation
Dated Thursday February 10

Getting the Purple Finger
By Naomi Klein

"The Iraqi people gave America the biggest 'thank you' in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother. Half blind and a menace behind the wheel of her Chevrolet, she adamantly refused to surrender her car keys. She was convinced that everywhere she drove (flattening the house pets of Philadelphia along the way) people were waving and smiling at her. "They are so friendly!" We had to break the bad news. "They aren't waving with their whole hand, Grandma--just with their middle finger."

So it is with Betsy Hart and the other near-sighted election observers: They think the Iraqi people have finally sent America those long-awaited flowers and candies, when Iraq's voters just gave them the (purple) finger.

The election results are in: Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to throw out the US-installed government of Iyad Allawi, who refused to ask the United States to leave. A decisive majority voted for the United Iraqi Alliance; the second plank in the UIA platform calls for "a timetable for the withdrawal of the multinational forces from Iraq" . . . .

So will the people who got all choked up watching Iraqis flock to the polls support these democratically chosen demands? Please. "You don't set timetables," George W. Bush said four days after Iraqis voted for exactly that. Likewise, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the elections "magnificent" but dismissed a firm timetable out of hand. The UIA's pledges to expand the public sector, keep the oil and drop the debt will likely suffer similar fates. At least if Adel Abd al-Mahdi gets his way--he's Iraq's finance minister and the man suddenly being touted as leader of Iraq's next government.

Al-Mahdi is the Bush Administration's Trojan horse in the UIA. (You didn't think they were going to put all their money on Allawi, did you?)

Read more.

Leave it to the Bushies to find new and imaginative ways to subvert democracy.

[merwin]

6. OK, it's late sunday over in Iraq right? Or are they releasing it USA time

since we're the ones fixing the election over there?

[NYC]

7. Two hours to go.

Should be released approx. 8 a.m. New York time.