Iraq Election Group Told to Leave in Illinois

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050120/ap_on_re_us/iraq_overseas_vote_chicago&cid=519&ncid=1478

NILES, Ill. - Staff members of a group helping Iraqis register to vote in their homeland's upcoming elections were forced out of their offices Thursday by village officials concerned about a possible attack on the building.


The International Organization for Migration plans to move its 15 paid workers to the northwest side of Chicago, said Oliver Vick, who heads the organization's local office. Niles is a village north of the city.


"We are having to move our offices, and we are moving to continue serving the Iraqi community in the best possible way," Vick said.


Village Manager Mary Kay Morrissey said officials were worried they could not adequately protect for the organization's offices. She added that the organization did not have all of the necessary zoning permits to operate out of the building.

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1. okay, so the REAL reason they're moving is zoning...

the rest is just fear and paranoia.

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2. This really speaks ill of our security policy

It looks like the people in the building are expected to draw possible terrorist attacks. At least, that is what is being said.

This has me raise some questions. What does this say about homeland security, if we have to move polling and registration places around? Is this about security, or is it about more vote fraud? The article is not clear enough to read between the lines for me.

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3. It's the same in Nashville...

They moved one polling place over "security concerns".

What gets my goat is that Dumbya's cronies are allowing the Iraqui citizens to vote on multiple days, and there's damn sure fewer of them than U.S. Citizens who all tried to vote in November.

Imagine who might have been inaugurated today if the citizens of the United States had been given 3 days to vote for president...