Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Iraqi Voting Issues, Many hanging Chads and Dimpled Chads……..

Arabia Deserta

Iraqi Voting Issues, Many hanging Chads and Dimpled Chads……..

“Iraq's election commission has rejected calls from the president and prime minister for a recount of votes cast in the general election on 7 March. An election official said a recount of all votes would be impossible and was unnecessary because of checks on fraud. Earlier, President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki backed calls for a manual recount of votes. Partial results indicate a close race between Mr Maliki and former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. But the long delay in announcing the full results has led to growing allegations of fraud. ………"As the president of the state, authorised to preserve the constitution and to ensure justice and absolute transparency, I demand the Independent High Electoral Commission recount the ballots manually starting from Sunday, March 21," Mr Talabani said in a statement…….”

Nobody seems able to force a recount. But I notice that only al-Maliki and Kurdish supporters want a recount. The Allawi group, for all their early protestations of irregularities, are silent about a recount. Do they know something we don't know but suspect? I, for one, am very suspicious.
And don't they have any Iraqi hanging chads or even dimpled chads?
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