FREEDOM: Early Voting in Iraq Is Mostly Smooth

NY Times ^ | January 28, 2009 | by Suadad al-Salhy

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BAGHDAD — Thousands of soldiers, police officers, hospital patients and prisoners cast ballots on Wednesday as part of early voting in Iraq’s provincial elections.

Overall, however, the voting appeared to go smoothly, Iraqi election officials said.

About 615,000 people, most of them employed by Iraq’s security forces, were eligible to vote Wednesday, three days before Saturday’s election. Government officials said the early balloting would help ensure that security forces would be on duty to protect polling stations on Saturday, when about 14 million more Iraqis are eligible to vote. More than 14,000 candidates are running for 440 seats on provincial councils in 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

April 20, 2007 (Washington) "I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," said Harry Reid, D-Nev.

[ConservaTexan]

Early Voting in Iraq Is Mostly Smooth

Wait till the community organizers get involved.

[lonestar67]

If Bush were president this would never have seen the light of day.

[woofie]

I guess Obama had a lot to do with this...we are all so happy now