With the preliminary results issued today pointing to a close race between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc and Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc, growing concerns from opposition factions about fraud in the vote count are emerging.
The Iraqiya bloc has complained of evidence that ballot boxes from certain precincts were discarded, and called for the government to issue exact vote numbers from each polling station, a demand quickly dismissed by the ruling bloc.
The Iraqi National Alliance, the other major opposition bloc, also expressed concerns about “premeditated intentions to alter the results.” They urged the election commision to operate with more transparency. The commission has confirmed receiving over 1,000 allegations of fraud.
The results released today only included five provinces, with Maliki’s bloc winning two southern, Shi’ite heavy provinces, Allawi winning two central provinces, and the ruling Kurdish bloc running ahead of the opposition Goran party in a Kurdish province.
None of that data was particularly surprising, but it also wasn’t particularly revealing as the election is expected to be decided mostly in provinces from which no data has been released.
Fraud, That's news?? No fraud would be news!! It has become abundantly clear that the empire has no principles whatsoever.. Murder torture rape are only a few of the tools in their bag. They also have shined up some of the old standbys. Bribery has become their new and emerging method… Paying the indigenous patriots to accept foreign occupation…….in Iraq……. In afghanistan…too McCrystal is open and adamant about, as he calls it, putting opposition groups on the payroll….. at a time when the U.S. is mega trillions in debt. It is a debt beyond payment. It's all about winning, right?
Bad actions have consequences.. but apparently for the winners, there are no consequences.. The only thing, these bad acts have UNLIMITED statute of limitations…. That's a long time… and an AIPAC centric government may not always call ALL the shots in the U.S…… Yoo, dude……..Are ya listenin…????