Iraqis Consider Extending Election Amid Violence
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Iraq may modify plans for its first  free election to give people more time to vote next month,  officials said Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again  struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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Two-thirds of registered voters in the  Iraqi capital say they will cast their ballots in the Jan. 30  election despite the threat of violence, an independent Iraqi  newspaper survey found Monday.
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.
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Leading Iraqi politicians have called for a six-month delay in the January 30 election because of the spiralling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against
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Iraqi officials said Saturday they are considering new measures to protect voters in the Jan. 30 national election, including a three-day, nationwide ban on driving to discourage car-bombings. Fresh clashes broke out in the troubled northern city of Mosul, where most election officials have fled their jobs in fear.
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Iraq sets a date of 30 January for elections, despite continuing violence that threatens to disrupt the poll.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Iraq's  election killed 17 people on the eve of the vote on Saturday  and the country's president warned the violence would scare  most Iraqis away from the polls.
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The registration deadline for Iraqis  voting abroad in their country's Jan. 30 election was extended  by two days on Saturday amid low turnout in some of the 14  countries where voter registration centers were established.
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Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern
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Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission said on Wednesday it may consider holding next month's elections over an extended period, as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had suggested.
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Iraq has chosen January 30 for its first democratic election in decades but violence in Sunni Muslim areas is underlining the challenge of holding polls on time.
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Iraqi elections sheduled to take place by January 31 may be postponed due to continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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A commander of multinational forces in Iraq has suggested that the countryâs planned elections be moved up by a month to December, saying militants could use an extended campaign to disrupt the poll.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of 17 leading Iraqi political organizations, including some of America&#39;s closest allies, called Friday for a postponement of elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing the violence and a lack of preparations.
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Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed by continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.