Posted on 12/14/2005 6:47:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
A polling station reopened Wednesday morning at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton for Iraqi voting.
It first opened Tuesday.
It is one of seven similar polling places around the country.
Thousands of Iraqis from all over the Western United States are expected to cast their ballots in Pleasanton.
The election is open to those who can prove they were born in Iraq or whose parents were born there.
The poll closes at 9 p.m. Thursday.
Approx 30,000 Iraqi voters voting in San Diego County
where they live.
I was grinning as I drove by the giant sandwich board on Bernal Avenue in Pleasanton tonight: "IRAQI GENERAL ELECTIONS" - wish I brought my camera!
The Southeastern US polling place is on my way to work. I'm gonna take a peek tommorrow. There were 900 early votes yesterday.
"I was grinning as I drove by the giant sandwich board on Bernal Avenue in Pleasanton tonight: "IRAQI GENERAL ELECTIONS"
A Kurdish friend at work also voted today.
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