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October 25, 2004
Iraqi election process moving forward. . .
I find it interesting that when you try to find out information about the Iraqi elections in January, you have to dig pretty deep to find good info about them. It's easy to find information relating to the violence in the region, how that violence will probably impact the elections and the effect the violence has on our election here in the US.
But what I wanted to know was how is the progess going in the establishment of political parties, where are they with the preparations for the actual Iraqi election. Will they go forward?
Well the answer appears to be YES. It seems that while our media is remiss to let us know about progress being made in the move toward the January Iraqi elections, the groundwork is being laid and registrations are about to begin.
In fact, Iraq the Model reports that 80.5 percent of Iraqis are ready for elections to go forward at any time. That's right, a super-majority of Iraqis are ready to get the ball rolling on their democratic process.
Here's some info on the rules of the game. It's funny that I had to go to a Chinese site to find this info.
I'm glad to see that progress is being made on this front in Iraq, while things may be bad in the foreign-insurgent areas of Fallujah, it's good to see that democracy is moving forward in the rest of the country.
---Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at October 25, 2004 1:26 AM
