Less Than 25 Percent of Eligible Overseas Voters Have Registered for Iraqi

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Wednesday, January 26




Less Than 25 Percent of Eligible Overseas Voters Have Registered for Iraqi Elections; U.S. Registration at About 10 Percent

By Bradley S. Klapper Associated Press Writer
Published: Jan 25, 2005






GENEVA (AP) - Less than 25 percent of eligible Iraqi expatriates have signed up to vote in Sunday's elections, officials said Tuesday, the last day for overseas registration.
In the United States, registration is running at about 10 percent.

International figures from the first eight days of registration - excluding Tuesday - showed that more than 255,600 Iraqis signed up for the vote, according to the International Organization for Migration. The Geneva-based body is handling voter registration outside Iraq.

"You have to see the positive side," IOM spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy told The Associated Press. "More than a quarter of a million have made the effort to go and register to vote."


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