[Media-watch] A tale of two elections

[David McKnight]

UPDATE FROM 
ELECTRONIC IRAQ

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Iraq Diaries
A TALE OF TWO ELECTIONS 
Allan Slater, Electronic Iraq (1 February 2005)
Alan Slater with Christian Peacemaker 
Teams writes from Karbala, Iraq.

The Canadian election on January 30th was very successful.
Voting across the prairies proceeded with few problems
meeting the high standards of the European Union. The
turnout ranged from 50% to 90% in some polling places. The
total ban on road traffic made it very safe for everyone
to walk to polling places. There was no voting in
Vancouver because the election workers had all resigned.
They were afraid of being targeted by resistance fighters.

http://electronicIraq.net/news/1853.shtml



Iraq Diaries
OBSERVING THE ELECTIONS IN KARBALA
Peggy Gish, Electronic Iraq (1 February 2005)

Ninety-year-old Keleje smiled widely as she walked out of
the voting station in a school on the edge of Kerbala,
where she voted for the first time in her life. Over the
doorway of the school a sign in Arabic read, "Today is the
real Iraq wedding." Ahmed Mohammed Hussein, an elderly man
near a polling station in central Kerbala like other
Iraqis in Kerbala, echoed this hopeful spirit as he said,
"We voted in a democratic atmosphere. We are happy and
hope this will give us a better life." Peggy Gish with
Christian Peacemaker Teams writes from Karbala, Iraq.

http://electronicIraq.net/news/1852.shtml




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