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...district returns officer, a new list was discovered. The man checking names had been working off a list for a different station. He appeared to be drunk, and seemed unable to read the identification numbers on registration cards. Meanwhile the two only inkpads available for voters to stamp their ballots were drying up. Voters had to return several times to the registration desk in order to moisten their stamp and mark their ballots. Khawaja Khurshid Alam, a polling agent for Musharraf's party, shook his head with disgust. "These are untrained persons, they don't know how to work...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to wage a "decisive battle" against insurgents in Mosul, which U.S. and Iraqi officials say is their last urban haven. But U.S. forces trying to stamp out insurgent networks in that city lack a major boon the surge effort has had elsewhere in Iraq over the past year: Local volunteer fighters...
...some counties in Florida, returning the ballot by mail costs $1.14. Voting officials place the burden of determining and correctly placing postage for these ballots on students who, living in an age when young people almost never visit the post office, may not even know the price of a stamp. Indeed, in talking to multiple fellow students this week, it is clear that many believe first-class postage still costs 39 cents...
Rare misprinted stamp sells...
...Britain in 1963. Odinga is a Luo - they make up 10% of the population. The two tribes have shared a tense coexistence, segregating themselves and rarely intermarrying. Luo have long complained that Kikuyu hoard political and economic power for themselves. And Kibaki never made good on his promises to stamp out corruption - a failing that has turned several other tribes in Kenya against...