Feb 01 2005
Sounds like Ohio
The New York Times is reporting that…
Iraqis Claim Irregularities Kept Many People From Voting BASRA, Iraq, Feb. 1 - As the national euphoria over the high turnout and seemingly smooth operation of Sunday’s elections begins to fade slightly, claims of election irregularities are surfacing around the country.
In northern Iraq, protests have repeatedly broken out over the last few days in several cities, where officials contend that hundreds of thousands of citizens, many of them Kurdish Christians, had not been able to vote because balloting materials had arrived inexplicably late.
A huge crowd of Shiite Muslims returning to southern Iraq from their holy pilgrimage to Mecca charged on Monday that they and hundreds of others like them had been deliberately kept from coming back to their country in time to vote in Sunday’s election. “They have wasted our votes,” said Jaleel Harran, 41, a pilgrim from the southern city of Nasiriya.
There are also assertions that election workers bent rules to allow unregistered citizens to cast ballots, and one charge that a political party was improperly left off the ballots.
Is anybody able to verify the whereabouts of one J. Kenneth Blackwell this past Sunday?
