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Topic: Iraqi legislative election

	Bequia free encyclopedia and guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Almost three months after the legislative election in Iraq, the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve a Shi'a -led cabinet, establishing the first elected government in the history of Iraq.
		Togolese presidential election, 2005 : Three killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose the successor to President GnassingbÃ© EyadÃ©ma, hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure GnassingbÃ©, the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani.
		The United Iraqi Alliance, the leading coalition in the new Government of Iraq, demands the death penalty for Saddam Hussein, accused of genocide in Kurdistan as well as torture and other human rights violations in Baghdad.
	bequia.paellaman.com /encyclopedia.php?title=April_2005 (3989 words)

	State Department Recaps Details of Iraqi Election - US Department of State
		Elections based on this constitution are then to be held in December 2005 to choose a Constitutional Iraqi government.
		Iraqis will vote on Election Day in thousands of voting centers across Iraq and in fourteen other countries where Iraqis live.
		The draft constitution is to be presented for approval to the Iraqi people in a national referendum in October 2005.
	usinfo.state.gov /mena/Archive/2005/Jan/05-313271.html (722 words)

	The Iraqi election "bait and switch": faulty poll will not bring peace or US withdrawal -- Project on Defense ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The election is supposed to figure centrally in the process of uniting the Iraqi nation and formulating its constitution.
		Election sceptics will find further fuel for their suspicions in the revelation of CIA plans to covertly assist Washington's favored candidates and parties.
		Among the factors that have fed the insurgency were the large-scale dismissal of civil servants at the beginning of the occupation, the demobilization of the Iraqi army and police, and the broad-brush practice of "de-Baathification".
	www.comw.org /pda/0501br17.html (10427 words)

	Iraqi Election Information Network - About us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Indonesia had its first elections in 1999, but was not fair and free because of the political parties' interference and control, It was the first step.
		In 2004 Indonesia had three elections: the Legislative Committee Elections (or the National Assembly) in April, the Presidential Elections - the First Round in July 2004, and the Presidential Elections - the Second Round in September 2004.
		This training on Elections' Observation gathered the delegates with the KPU (Indonesian Election Committee), PANWASLU (a new established committee responsible for the elections' complaints) and many other national committees which were involved in the election process.
	www.iraqiein.org /english/aboutus.htm (536 words)

	VOA News - Powell And Bush On Iraqi Election
		In those elections, Iraqis will choose two-hundred-and-seventy-five members of a Transitional National Assembly, which will write a new constitution for Iraq.
		Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says the attacks will not derail the vote.
		Powell says he hopes that most Iraqi Sunnis feel they have a fair opportunity to participate in the elections.
	www.voanews.com /uspolicy/Archive/a-2005-01-13-2-1.cfm (339 words)

	IEDs - Iraq Election Discussions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Iraq’s Sunni minority, which largely boycotted the election, would probably be awarded between four and six posts, while the Christian and Turkmen minorities would receive one ministry each, she said.
		Seven weeks after Iraqis defied insurgent threats to take part in the country’s first free election in decades, and as a series of explosions shook the heart of the capital, members of the constitutional assembly convened here today for the first time.
		The UIA, which won 140 seats in the January 30 national election, has started negotiations with Iraq’s Kurdish Alliance, which amassed 77 seats in the vote and is pressing demands for a federal state and guarantees on the final status of the disputed northern rich oil city of Kirkuk.
	iraqelect.com (7545 words)

	CFR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Iraqi Shiites —some 60 percent of Iraq’s population—have never held political power and see the January 30 election as a way to attain the dominant voice in the new government.
		Iraqi National Congress (INC): The INC is headed by Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial Shiite exile and banker whose coalition of anti-regime exile groups received U.S. support before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
		The commission has hired about 600 regular Iraqi staff so far, but some 150,000 poll workers have to be hired and trained by Election Day, says Jeff Fischer, the director of the Center for Transitional and Post-Conflict Governance at at the International Foundation for Election Systems, which is helping to organize the vote.
	www.cfr.org /background/iraq_election_politics.php (1708 words)

	Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive
		17 July: The legislative elections in the Palestinian Territories have been postponed to a date to be announced.
		Constituency-level figures from the 28 June Canadian legislative election, in which the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Paul Martin was returned to office without an absolute majority in the House of Commons.
		Found at last: The April 2004 legislative election in Equatorial Guinea, the 2002 legislative election in Guinea, the 2000 presidential election in Cote d'Ivoire, the 1999 presidential election in Central African Republic.
	psephos.adam-carr.net (1723 words)

	Iraqi Letters: Iraqi Elections - The Day After
		That was the figure in the election in September for the Constituent Assembly.
		Before the results of the presidential election started to come in, the American officials warned that the turnout might be less than 80 per cent because the polling place would be open for two or three hours less than in the election a year ago.
		In fact, local elections in Kurdistan are the one exception to party hegemony: While smaller parties like Mahmud's joined the combined Kurdish ticket for the regional and national elections, they are running independently on the local ballot.
	iraquna.blogspot.com /2005/02/iraqi-elections-day-after.html (11998 words)

	TAPPED: October 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Election Protection's Election Incident Reporting System -- Election Protection is logging all complaints received by their call center; they've already registered more than 200 calls for Miami-Dade County alone, ranging from the innocuous ("Wants to know where to vote") to the troublesome ("She reported that Haitian immigrants had been intimidated by 'Republican' lawyers").
		The way election controversies are shaping up, DRE machines don't look to be the major battlefield that many expected ; although it's too early to discount DRE malfunctions or malfeasance, I'd say that registration challenges, provisional ballots, and all the attendant controversies seem like more of a sure-thing disaster.
		Elections and election governance are complicated, antiquated, beset by archaic rules and processes, and in general a model of how government is not supposed to work.
	www.prospect.org /weblog/archives/2004/10 (16005 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Countdown to Iraqi Election Reaches Final Month
		An estimated 13.9 million Iraqis are eligible to cast ballots, and U.S., coalition and Iraqi officials are committed to ensuring that the election process remains on track.
		Powell said coalition and Iraqi forces are focused on bringing security to the Sunni-dominated cities, and he said he hopes the Iraqi Islamic Party will review the situation as elections draw nearer and reconsider its decision.
		Powell acknowledged the elections likely would not bring an end to the violence, because the insurgents are determined to fight every step of Iraq’s progress toward a fully representative government.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/Dec2004/a123004la1.html (695 words)

	With Jaafari Or Allawi, What´s Next For Iraq? :: www.rojname.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In all, 12 parties will be represented in the legislative branch, expected to draft a constitution and organize a new ballot to establish a permanent government in December.
		On election day, the change in tactics was evident, as Iraqi security forces took the lead role in securing polling stations.
		Moderate Sunni parties which boycotted the election have already signalled their willingness to participate in the political process.The major factor in the new Iraqi governmentâs favour is that the insurgency presents no political alternative, and cannot hope to form an administration.
	www.rojname.com /index.kurd?nuce=37633 (1080 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Legislative branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		elections: Senate - last held intermittently by province during the 2nd half of 2003 (next to be held NA 2005); Chamber of Deputies - last held intermittently by province during the 2nd half of 2003 (next to be held NA 2005)
		Legislative Council met on 25 September 2004 for first time in 20 years with 21 members appointed by the Sultan; passed constitutional amendments calling for a 45-seat council with 15 elected members
		elections: (next to be held August 2006); direct elections for national parliament were never held; elected delegates to the national convention named themselves legislators instead of having elections; hence the exceptional numbers for this term of the national parliament.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/fields/2101.html (11129 words)

	The AmishThrasher
		The Iraqi government abandoned it, on the grounds that an international agreement had already specified that out-of-country training of Iraqi troops in the region should be done in Jordan.
		Many Iraqi Sunnis believe that the Sunni Arabs are the true majority, but that millions of illegal Iranian emigrants masquerading as Iraqi Shiites have flooded into the country, skewing vote totals in the recent elections.
		The United Iraqi Alliance is one of the electoral coalitions that participated in the January 30, 2005, National Assembly election in Iraq.
	amishthrasher.blogspot.com (7806 words)

	Wired News: House Dems Seek Election Inquiry
		Elections officials knew about the problem two years ago, but the company failed to fix the software before the election this year.
		John Doty, spokesman for Nadler, said the congressmen emphasized that they were not seeking a nationwide recount and were not anticipating that an investigation would change the outcome of the election.
		But a GAO representative told Wired News in September that the agency was planning to produce a report on e-voting after the election anyway.
	www.wired.com /news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 (641 words)

	The Iraqi election "bait and switch":
		(3) Many Iraqi voters will not know who or what they are voting for.
		(15) Some de-Baathification measures affect electoral participation and these probably have contributed to Sunni disaffection with the elections.
		Addendum 1: Iraqi attitudes on the coalition, occupation,
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7841.htm (10477 words)

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