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January 10, 2005

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PM Allawi mulling delaying the elections in Iraq.

Bad idea, for all the reasons Robert says.

Here's what I say: hold the dang thing. See what happens. If there's too much violence, or too many people scared of violence, you can hold a revote in certain locations. If necessary. But there were reports of spectacular attacks planned in Afghanistan on election day, and nothing happened.

The same thing could happen in Iraq. Just tell the Sunnis that this is for real, and if they want to have any say at all in the new government, they'd better work to suppress the violence and get their happy butts out to the polling station.

See how many you get. Weight some vote projections according to exit polling samples if you have to. Declare voting problems and hold a complete revote if you think it will help. But get this first vote done on time.

Please.

Posted by Nathan at 03:42 PM | Comments (1)
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Nathan - FWIW, I can't find any other stories or commentary on this. Unless it's just the whole Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston thing crowding it off the wires, this makes me think there might be less to the article than I feared. I hope so.

Posted by: Robert the LB at January 11, 2005 05:57 AM
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