Making Sense of Iraq's Vote
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Election leaves all stakeholders facing new choices
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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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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.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Most international specialists assessing the fairness of Iraq's elections will monitor the Jan. 30 vote from the safety of neighboring Jordan, but a few observers will head to Baghdad and perhaps other Iraqi cities if security permits, UN and other officials said yesterday.
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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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A sectarian split is a risk in Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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The results of the Iraqi election are to be announced on Sunday, amid a fresh wave of insurgent attacks.
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The extended train wreck that has been American-dominated Iraq is winding its way toward a decisive intersection: the national elections scheduled for Jan. 30, 2005, where voters will be asked
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For the first time since the removal of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis will go to the polls to elect a new leader. Elections are to be held on January 30th to choose Iraq&#39;s 275-seat national assembly, a Kurdish national
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President Bush has called on Iraqis to defy terrorists and vote in Sunday's election. What do you think about the prospects for the poll?
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S involvement in Iraq and terrorism strikes in Southeast Asia have made defence and national security potentially decisive issues for voters as polling day nears.
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Which of the following best characterizes the situation in Iraq?
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Both parties appeared to be maneuvering to gain political advantage from a relatively peaceful vote in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - Top U.S. officials differed Friday over key details of planned Iraqi elections in January, including the unresolved issue of whether all Iraqis will be able to vote and who will protect them from their country's worsening violence...
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Probably not, but Tehran may do better than Washington when Iraqis vote
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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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ELEANOR HALL: To Iraq now, and the insurgency there is increasingly drawing warnings from neighbouring countries, particularly about the viability of the elections due to be held in Iraq in January.