Iraq&#39;s Crucial Election Ballot Down to Lottery
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Spinning a clear plastic drum filled with numbered balls, like a national lottery, Iraq&#39;s electoral commission determined Monday where parties contesting the Jan. 30 poll would rank on ballot papers.
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Iraq's election authorities begin sending ballot boxes to provincial towns ahead of Sunday's election.
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President Bush will be on the ballot, at least in the realm of public opinion, when Iraq holds its first democratic election in nearly half a century.
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The ballot for the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 may list about 200 parties or individuals, each identified on a line with a name and a logo, but each voter will have a single vote to cast.
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In just over seven weeks Iraqis will head to 9000 polling places to elect a 275 member transitional assembly. It will be the nation&#39;s first democratic election.
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Key political players in Iraq's election:
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Farid Ayar, spokesman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said that the commission has decided that crucial elections will take place at the end of January.
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Iraqis vote on Sunday in a landmark  election overshadowed by massive security to protect them  against insurgents who killed 20 people on Saturday and have  threatened a polling day bloodbath.
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The presidential election is predicted to be the tightest race in the countryâs history.
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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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Logistical preparations are under way to allow at least a million exiled Iraqis to cast their votes in the country's first free elections next month, a senior organizer said on Thursday.
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Iraqis in two of the country's most troubled provinces will be permitted to register and vote on the day of elections, the head of Iraq's electoral commission said Saturday.
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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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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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As random selection placed registered entrants on a ballot that is expected to be several pages long, officials worried that violence aimed at preventing the election is surging.
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A sectarian split is a risk in Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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JAKARTA A bomb in Jakarta 11 days before Indonesia&#39;s presidential election may lead voters to decide a neck-and-neck race based on security concerns.