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At the polling stations, voters will be asked to choose a political party rather than an individual. The election will be run on a proportional-representation list system - each party contesting the election offers a list of candidates to fill the number of seats proportional to the share of the...
The UN estimates Iraq will need some 30,000 polling stations nationwide, and an electoral staff of some 120,000, yet to be put in place; currently, the UN presence in Iraq is limited, for security reasons, to a meager 35 people.
Uwe Leichsenring seems like a typical bürger from small-town Germany. He lives with his wife and child in the tiny village of Königstein in the former East German state of Saxony, where he owns three driving schools and is a member of the town council...
Security issues aside, holding an election also carries great political risk - for Allawi. Having no substantial domestic political base going into the job, it's far from clear that the prime minister would hold onto his office once Iraqis get to choose their leaders at the polling booth. One way...
The science of polling has come a long way since 1948, when TIME did a cover story on GEORGE GALLUP. But even then, the results of his nationwide surveys had the potential to change the dynamics of a political race.