Provincial elections in Iraq

[Vermouth]

What's the status of the elections? They were supposed to be held in October but have been delayed, I think until to 2009 but I can't find a date. Sunnis can't be pleased, and Kirkuk is still unresolved. This is from early August:

Iraqi lawmakers postponed a vote on Tuesday on a law to allow provincial elections, the second time in three days that they failed to resolve a standoff over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk which has stoked ethnic tension.

Iraq's minority Kurds welcomed a new U.N.-backed plan, unveiled in negotiations overnight, to resolve the deadlock over the election law by setting aside decisions on the fate of Kirkuk, a city Kurds regard as their ancestral capital.

The U.N. plan, seen by Reuters, would authorize elections to go ahead across the rest of the country but leave the future of Kirkuk for a separate law to be passed at a later date.

Kurds want to fold Kirkuk into their semi-autonomous northern region, a plan opposed by the city's Arab and Turkmen residents and all of the major non-Kurdish parties in Iraq...

Iraqi parliament again puts off election vote

[Wowster]

What's the status of the elections? They were supposed to be held in October but have been delayed, I think until to 2009 but I can't find a date. Sunnis can't be pleased, and Kirkuk is still unresolved. This is from early August:

Iraqi lawmakers postponed a vote on Tuesday on a law to allow provincial elections, the second time in three days that they failed to resolve a standoff over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk which has stoked ethnic tension.

Iraq's minority Kurds welcomed a new U.N.-backed plan, unveiled in negotiations overnight, to resolve the deadlock over the election law by setting aside decisions on the fate of Kirkuk, a city Kurds regard as their ancestral capital.

The U.N. plan, seen by Reuters, would authorize elections to go ahead across the rest of the country but leave the future of Kirkuk for a separate law to be passed at a later date.

Kurds want to fold Kirkuk into their semi-autonomous northern region, a plan opposed by the city's Arab and Turkmen residents and all of the major non-Kurdish parties in Iraq...

Iraqi parliament again puts off election vote

I'm more concerned about these Liberal Democrats choosing to go with paper ballots, instead of electronic ballots and trying to steal the elections in the US.

[Gunit Hussein Sangh]

I can understand why ya'll don't like paper ballots. It's kinda hard for repuglicans to win elections without electronic votes that disappear and can be mis-counted isn't it 

[Wowster]

I can understand why ya'll don't like paper ballots. It's kinda hard for repuglicans to win elections without electronic votes that disappear and can be mis-counted isn't it 

It's a fact, Democrats can not understand butterfly ballots, why do Democrats want to use them? Hmmmmmmmm