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In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore was the person most hated by the Bush WH, [View all]blm
(114,664 posts)You also seem to forget that UN helped set up that vote. You wanted it all to be portrayed as an inconsequential, joke election by the Dem candidate who also just started a Civil War within the Democratic party? Try engaging the part of your brain that can read a calendar and relies on LOGIC, Ken.
<<In June 2004, the United Nations formed an 8-member central Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI), nominated by notables from around Iraq, to run the election process. CPA orders 92, 96, and 97, issued just before the June 28, 2004 handover of sovereignty to an interim government, provided for voting by proportional representation (closed list). Under that system, voters chose among competing political entities: a party, a coalition of parties, or an individual running as an independent. Seats in the National Assembly (and the provincial assemblies) were allocated in proportion to a slates showing in the voting. Any entity that obtained at least 1/275 of the vote (about 31,000 votes) obtained a seat. Some criticized this system as precluding the possibility ofdelayedelectionsininsecureareasandlikelytofavorwell-establishedparties.2 Others said this system was the easiest to administer in a short time frame. Under IECI rules, a woman candidate occupied every third position on electoral lists in order to meet the TALs goal for at least 25% female membership in the new Assembly.>>