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...very secret ballot...
...would be nice but ineffective. "As a taxpayer, yeah, I'd like to save $1,000 or more," says Adam Cooley, 23, a recent grad working in Cedar Rapids. "But the job opportunities need to be there." Voters in North Dakota agreed in 2002, rejecting 2 to 1 a ballot initiative that would have offered young adults $2,000 a year in tax breaks and help with student loans. That outcome was inevitable, says North Dakota Republican Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple. "Ask a 22-year-old, 'Are you interested in sticking around for our new tax break...
...hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East," the President said Sunday, greeting news reports that voter turnout had been greater than expected. Expectations, of course, had been gloomy, as the raging insurgency had effectively precluded most campaign activity, and voters on Sunday went into ballot booths to select from parties and coalitions whose candidates had, for the most part, been kept a secret...
...ethnic breakdown as expected: Strong voter turnout among the long-marginalized Shiites and Kurds, who together comprise over 80 percent of the population; poor turnout among the Sunni Arabs in whose name the insurgency fights. Still, the very fact of Iraq's next government being chosen at the ballot box entrenches the principle that no government can claim legitimacy in Iraq without a democratic popular mandate. There can be no underestimating the epic significance of that principle in a country that has, for most of its history, been run by autocrats and thugs who derived authority either from the backing...
...Look at the Candidates Who's on the ballot, and who are the front-runners...