Emotional Iraqis Cast Votes in America
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Voting in an Iraqi election for the first time was as personal as it was political for Adim Altalibi. Altalibi, a 55-year-old engineer who left Iraq in 1987, was tearful Friday as he thought about his five nephews killed under Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same.
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Exiled Iraqis began registering to vote Monday in their homeland's first independent election in nearly 50 years, with dozens arriving at polling stations from Australia to Britain &#151; and many expressing confusion at the process.
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LONDON -- Exiled Iraqis began registering to vote yesterday in their homeland's first independent election in nearly 50 years, with dozens arriving at polling stations in 14 countries from Australia to Britain to the United States -- and many expressing confusion at the process.
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Iraqis in Australia danced in the  streets on Friday, twirling scarfs and singing, and proudly  displaying blue ink on their fingers which told the world they  had cast the first votes in Iraq's long-awaited election.
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Iraqis held their breath at the unaccustomed quiet in the capital Tuesday, reveling in post-election euphoria as officials began what they said could be a week-long count of ballots and political jockeying began over the next government.
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With Iraq's crucial election coming up on Jan. 30, people still have strikingly different views on the vote.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis of Iraqi descent have the right to vote in the Jan. 30 elections &#151; including a former defense minister and a comedian known for his sidesplitting imitations of Saddam Hussein &#151; but it's hard to find anyone interested in actually casting ballots.
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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Billboards urging Iraqis here to vote in their national elections Sunday loom over major intersections. Schools have become registration centers, their rows of tiny desks filled with Iraqis who have sought refuge here from war. Radio and television ads urge the exiles to vote.
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BAGHDAD -- Despite renewed attacks on polling places yesterday and continued calls to boycott today's elections, Iraqis lined up this morning to cast ballots for a National Assembly that will begin to put an Iraqi stamp on political and security decisions shaped by the US occupation since the American invasion nearly two years ago.
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The Bush administration&#39;s hopes for Iraq rest heavily on whether Iraqis can shape their political future through elections, but it could be difficult for them to vote on Jan. 30, as now planned.
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Even with widespread violence in Iraq, voters there showed a passion for democracy by apparently turning out in numbers comparable to a typical election in the United States.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the United States began registering on Monday for elections at the end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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Despite insurgent attacks, initial reports of strong turnout in Iraq's landmark vote lend air of legitimacy.
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Some smiled, some were stoic and others hid their faces as Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, braving anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the historic vote in blood.
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Washington, Dec. 21 (PTI): A majority of Americans among those who believed at the beginning that the Iraq war would be swift and victorious now think it was a mistake and the January 30 elections to be held in the country would not be honest.