Thursday, October 27, 2005

ABC Reporter: I watched voter fraud in Iraq

PBSWashWk w/Gwen Ifill: (Martha Raddatz ABCNews) "There are some irregularities and I can tell you right now I witnessed them. When we went into the polling places, and it was interesting, the 1st polling place wouldn't let cameras in. The 2nd one was, 'Come on in, come on in.' I thought, 'This'll change under democracy. We'll come back in 4 yrs. This'll never happen again.' We were behind the voting booth. My cameraman was back there and there was a man who took 7 ballots, at least, b/c we have it on camera and marked yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes... and there were some neighborhoods where there was 99% voted yes. When you get over 90%, you start thinking something might be up. So that's going to take a while. And the hard part here as well is once the election commission comes out and says, 'This is how it was. There were or were not irregularities,' whether that sticks w/ the populations--again, especially the Sunni Arabs have been largely responsible for the insurgency and felt this disaffected by this--if it passes, there are these irregularities, they see our film, that's going to be trouble." Imagine all that... there is going to be more trouble. Maybe Cheney will tell us that the "election insurgency is in it's last throes", eh?
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