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...still commands loyalty from Tajik fighters in the north. In hundreds of the country's 5,000 polling stations, it will be Qanooni's men who stand guard, raising the prospect of intimidation. Many voters think that somehow the commanders will know whether they have betrayed them on the ballot. Says Sifton: "The vast majority of voters don't understand that their ballot will be kept secret." Karzai's supporters aren't above arm twisting either. In the eastern province of Khost, a group of 300 elders of the Terezay tribe threatened to torch the houses of anyone who doesn...
...election is being closely watched in Washington. During his campaign, President George W. Bush has repeatedly touted Afghanistan as a success story, in part to counter the horrific news coming out of Iraq. The inevitable TV-news clip of an Afghan woman lifting her blue veil to mark a ballot will be offered as compelling proof that Afghanistan, as Bush says, is "on the path to democracy and freedom...
...warlords jobs in his next Cabinet. As John Sifton of Human Rights Watch, a U.S. monitoring group, says, "Votes aren't being campaigned for; they're being bought by strongmen." Afghans, in other words, still live under the rule of the gun and the bribe, not the ballot...
PROPOSITION 200, an Arizona ballot initiative aimed at illegal immigrants, would seem to have little going for it. Virtually the entire political, business and religious establishment of the state--including Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, Republican Senator John McCain and the state's three Catholic bishops--is lined up against it. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is also campaigning for its defeat. But such is the backlash against the flood of undocumented Mexicans pouring over the border that the "Protect Arizona Now" initiative seems almost a sure bet to pass...
Fearing another Nader nightmare in 2004, Democrats have mounted court challenges to his ballot petitions in states across the country. Nader angrily decries the tactic as anti-democratic and illegal, but in most cases it has failed. Which means that in key toss-up states like New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and, once again, Florida, Nader could siphon from Kerry enough liberal votes to deliver the election to Bush. In the latest TIME poll, Nader draws a surprisingly high 5% of the vote nationally. "Ralph Nader played a spoiler role in the 2000 election, and he could just as easily...