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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: AuBug who wrote (35152)	7/2/2005 12:13:58 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (3) of 93284

Iran even kept the polls open later so everyone could vote due to high voter turn out. High voter turnout! Really? From the Trinidad & Tabago Express: "Back when Iranians believed that electing a reformist president could bring change, voter turnout was huge, but it has been plummeting as they lost hope: from 83 per cent in 1997 to 67 per cent in 2001, 62 percent in the first round of voting this month - and only 47 per cent in the second round. Ahmadinejad's "landslide" was less than 30 per cent of qualified voters." They allowed many candidates to run with a vote of all the people and not restricted to party primaries. Look very fair and democratic to me. Defending the fairness of Iranian democracy would seem t be a stretch. "The Guardian Council disqualified 3,000 parliamentary candidates from running on the grounds that they were not Islamic enough, including eighty sitting members of parliament (out of 290)." trinidadexpress.com

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