Thumb print required to vote in US occupied Iraq. No intimidation there

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4057042

Protection, Not Politics, Is Main Focus for Iraq Election

<snip>The area pioneered the use of ration books as a registration document and invited British troops to provide back-up to their own security arrangements, a role UK forces will take this weekend.

“We know the democratic experience can be a successful one, we are the proof and believe that national elections will be a success on Sunday, said Mr Almousawi.

In a rehearsal of polling procedure, council workers made entry searches with donated hand held metal detectors and practised delivering the ink thumb print to be issued to every Iraqi who votes.

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1. So, the insurgents will now undertake a campaign

of dethumbings to intimidate people against voting.