Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of Adjusting Vote Result

[Khephra]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly.

Speaking of "unacceptable" interference, Electoral Commission spokesman Farid Ayar said: "Who wins, wins. That is the way it is. That is the way it will be in the election."

U.S. diplomats in Baghdad, at pains to keep their role in the election discreet, declined comment on a New York Times report from Washington which said Sunnis might be granted extra seats if the community's vote was judged to have been too low.

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"The Americans are expressing their views and those aren't always the same as the Commission's," Ayar told Reuters.

"But the Commission is absolutely independent. It is not acceptable for anyone to interfere in our business."

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7179752


Looks like Ayar will be "disappeared" soon. Hated by many Iraqis, now he's refusing to do BushCo's dirty work. That can't lead to a long life expectancy.

[Benhurst]

1. These people are hopeless. Don't they understand the way

American "elections" work?

[bear425]

2. A little tweak here, a little tweak there...

Anything to get the desired result, right? Sickening.

[Kadie]

3. Maybe they should just send Triad over to count the votes.

:P

[Vidar]

4. Let's send them Blackwell.

[oneighty]

5. And now with UN assistance

out of country Iraqis will be allowed and encouraged to vote absentee. Absentee voting in my experience has always profited the Republicans. So many ways to cheat.

180

[VegasWolf]

6. Publicly, but Allawi gives awol a huge wink! n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

7. How do you cook an election in Iraq?

Sunni side up.

[nashville_brook]

8. ouch!

[Bluebear]

9. Those pesky Iraqis. Don't they realize how Bush runs things? nt