Iraq&#39;s Disappearing Election
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raq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, acknowledges that those elections he and President Bush have vowed would take place next January &quot;may not be perfect.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq--Iraq&quot;s electoral commission on Sunday set Jan. 30 for elections to choose a National Assembly, a vote that could deliver power to Iraq&quot;s Shiite Muslim majority after decades of disenfranchisement.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials said yesterday that they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying the final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering.
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Those who are wondering when the United States can draw down its troop levels in Iraq should pay close attention to the details of Iraqi elections set for January 30.
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WASHINGTON - There are two presidential races going on: One here, one in Iraq. George Bush has to convince voters he isn&#39;t losing the second to be sure of winning the first.
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Iraqâs second-largest city is now without foreign forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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Iraqi Official Says UN Has Not Sent Enough Workers to Help With Balloting in Jan. Elections. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari gives a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct 20, 2004.
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IRAQâS electoral commission announced yesterday that the countryâs first polls would be held on January 30, amid rising concern that violence would make voting impossible in many Sunni-dominated areas.
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Iraqi officials say Jan. 30 has been set as the new date for the war-torn country&#39;s first national elections since a US-led military coalition toppled Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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Explosions reverberated across Iraq's capital and several other large cities Sunday, leaving an estimated 17 dead by early afternoon. But Iraq's first democratic election in nearly half a century was nevertheless well underway,  albeit unevenly, with visible jubilation in some areas and shuttered polling places in others.
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With only two months to go until Iraq&#39;s general elections, the local government has yet to devise a plan for registering voters in one of the country&#39;s largest cities.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 22  - Iraq and its neighbours on Monday threw their weight behind elections seen as crucial to the future of the violence-wracked country, at the opening of an international conference that was to put the United States at
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Questions are growing over whether Iraq will be able to hold fully nationwide elections in January as part of its planned transition to a more democratic system of government.
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Iraq had a rare moment out of the world spotlight in the past week, eclipsed by the tsunami devastation in Southeast Asia. But the country saw a host of critically important political developments and deadly attacks that could cripple elections set for Jan. 30, and that suggest the insurgents are refining their strategy to wreck the vote.
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With seven weeks to go before landmark  polls, Iraq's electoral body is stepping up a campaign to  inform voters of their rights, but widespread ignorance remains  among the electorate, interviews show.
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Despite violence at the polls, Iraq completes its historic election. Now, all the stakeholders face new choices
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Some couldn't read, but knew their party's identification number on the ballot. Others couldn't see, but were led to the polls by police. Across wide swathes of Iraq, especially in the southern Shiite and northern Kurdish areas, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, expressing fierce determination and pride, together with hope that the election will improve their hard lives.