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...potential repercussions of the Texas redistricting scheme, have laid the groundwork for a crisis in the democratic process. The next time a party wrests control of the executive and legislative branches in a large state, its leadership may imitate Delay’s tactics. Such a move would wreak havoc on the democratic process...
Security remains the major obstacle to holding a credible election on January 30, because of the insurgency's unchecked ability to wreak havoc at the polls. The goal of the insurgents is to keep voter turnout as low as possible, in order to deny the election legitimacy. U.S. and Iraqi leaders have already acknowledged that voting will not be possible for many of the inhabitants of four Iraqi provinces - Anbar, Nineveh, Salahdin and Baghdad - which, between them, are home to upward of 40 percent of the population. Insurgent attacks have forced the resignation of electoral workers in Anbar and Nineveh...
...officials and election workers, many of whom have now quit in some of the hottest insurgent target areas north of Baghdad. And while Baghdad, Mosul and the Sunni areas north and immediately south of the capital have born the brunt of the violence, insurgents have shown an ability to wreak havoc far from their home bases in such Shiite strongholds as Najaf, Karbala and Basra...
...another frontal assault. The Sadrists have also created flashpoints in Basra, Nasiriya, Karbala, Samawa, Kut and elsewhere throughout the Shiite south, while the Sunni insurgents have added Ramadi, Samarra, Baquba and others to the list of no-go areas for U.S. troops. And both Sunnis and Shiites continue to wreak havoc on the streets of Baghdad on a daily basis...
...casualty attacks on Shiite mosques and other Iraqi targets. Dealing with the suicide-terror element is therefore a top priority for the government. And so, too, for Iraq's Arab neighbors, who fear that locals who had gone over to fight alongside the insurgency may be returning home to wreak further mayhem in the name of jihad...