Iraqi Officials Deny Forged Ballots Seized at Border

[Judi Lynn]

Iraqi Officials Deny Forged Ballots Seized at Border
By Alisha Ryu
Baghdad
14 December 2005

Iraq's interior minister on Wednesday denied a report by his own ministry that a tanker truck filled with forged ballot papers was seized a day earlier near Iraq's border with Iran. Sectarian tension is increasing before Thursday's all-important parliamentary elections in Iraq.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr says his ministry received no reports of a tanker being seized by Iraqi border police in the town of Badra, east of Baghdad, after it crossed over from Iran.

The New York Times newspaper reported the seized tanker contained several thousand partly completed ballots. The newspaper said the Iranian driver of the tanker told authorities that at least three other tankers, loaded with forged ballots, had recently entered Iraq from Iran at different border crossings.

The source for the news story was an unnamed official in Mr. Jabr's interior ministry. But the minister dismissed the report as as an attempt to discredit the election process.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-12-14-voa56.cfm

[xultar]

1. ...

Makes me laugh...because the US government would love to story to be true.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Just like the USA! Only ours is done with electronic counters.

[tom swift]

9. re: Diebold

Not going to happen in Iraq while we're there, not enough electricity. According to the State Department Weekly Reports, Baghdad,for example, is averaging only 5 hours of electricity/day. (12/07/05)

[NanceGreggs]

3. It's bound to happen, sooner or later ...

... Iraq, meet DIEBOLD!

[Nordmadr]

4. Refuting his own Ministry. Now I guess there aren't any political

problems there huh? Free? I guess free is relative my friends.

Olafr

[rustydog]

5. Hummm, another Pentagon pay-for news story?

Winning hearts and minds through shoddy propaganda.

Truck stopped at border with tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots. They were shrewdly hidden under the WMd's Bush has been searching for since invading Iraq.
The triple whammy is Osama bin Missing was inside the trailer tryig to arm one of the WMD's.

Details to follow as soon as the Pentagon can find a someone to make up the story.

[Javaman]

6. well, this sort of crushes jr's* hopes...

of fixing the election if it goes bad. But we all know that ain't going to happen because it's already fixed.

Orwell's big brother would be proud.

[Solly Mack]

7. lol

WTG! Just like America!!!

[Supersedeas]

8. boy they learn Rovian democracy quick, don't they

[newscott]

10. Who wrote the NYTIMES piece, Judy Miller?

[KansDem]

11. "Ballots of Forged Construction"

It was only a matter of time before BushCo corrupted this election too.

[bullimiami]

12. oh come on. WE printed the real ballots and WE printed the fake ballots.

the whole election is a sham and a rig.