Expat Iraqis Head to Polls Around World
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Iraqis around the world streamed into polling stations Sunday for their last chance to cast ballots in Iraq's historic election, expressing hopes that the vote will bring peace and stability to their homeland.
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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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Iraq: Iraq geared up Monday for its first post-Saddam Hussein elections on January 30 despite relentless nationwide violence, as world powers gathered in Egypt for a conference on the country&#39;s future.
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Determined to make sure their voices count, some American expatriates who missed registration deadlines or are worried about the reliability of absentee ballots are flying home next week just to vote.
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Less than 25 percent of eligible Iraqi expatriates have signed up to vote in Sunday's elections, officials said Tuesday, the last day for overseas registration.
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About a third of expatriate Iraqis who voted by absentee ballot last week in the United States chose the Shiite party backed by Iraq's leading clerics, followed closely by a party made up of Iraqi Christians, according to provisional results released Friday.
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Voter registration by Iraqis living outside their country has been far below expectations &#151; perhaps due to apathy or fear of reprisals &#151; but it has shown signs of increasing, prompting organizers to extend it for two days, they said Saturday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is taking the first steps to expand its presence in Iraq outside Baghdad to the cities of Basra and Erbil but is planning to have only about 25 electoral specialists in the country ahead of the scheduled Jan. 30 elections, a UN spokesman said yesterday.
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Iraqis around the world cast ballots on the final day of overseas voting Sunday, with Australia extending voting at one station because of a riot and bomb scare, and Iraqi exiles streaming to polling stations in Jordan.
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Iraqi election workers Tuesday began collecting the vote tallies from around the country, putting the finishing touches on the first free election in Iraq in half a century.
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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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It was almost as if Jordan itself was holding elections Saturday as Iraqi voters living here cast ballots on the second day of overseas voting in their nation's elections.
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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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For most Americans, registering to vote can be a tedious, humdrum process. For most Iraqis in this country, it's a brand new world.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said some 150,000 of the estimated 250,000 Iraqis living in Britain would be eligible to vote under a scheme that is also organized for Iraqi expatriates in 13 ...
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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Iraq stood on the verge of its first free election in a half-century Saturday, its borders and bridges locked down, its hopes on the line. The government urged Iraqis to vote despite their fears of violence, even as insurgents rocketed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, killing two Americans.