Read this excellant piece on the rigging of Iraqs election from all sides:

GET OUT THE VOTE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election?

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050725fa_fact

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"Ghassan Atiyyah, a secular Shiite who worked on the State Department’s postwar planning project before the invasion of Iraq and is now the director of the Iraq Foundation for Development and Democracy, in Baghdad, told me that he and many of his associates believed that Allawi’s surprisingly strong showing “was due to American manipulation of the election. There’s no doubt about it. The Americans, directly or indirectly, spent millions on Allawi.” Atiyyah went on, “As an Iraqi who supported the use of force to overthrow Saddam, I can tell you that as long as real democratic practices are not adhered to, you Americans cannot talk about democracy.”

I would be very surpised if the power hungary bushco didn't try and rig their elections. Can you say "PUPPET GOVERNMANT"?

PUPPET GOVERNMENT haha

This was inevitable. Elections are pretty much always rigged in the third world, with only a few exceptions.

Some say they were rigged here too :)

Originally posted by Blob
This was inevitable. Elections are pretty much always rigged in the third world, with only a few exceptions.

You mean they're not rigged in our country? Could have fooled me.:p

So you're also saying that there's such thing as a "Non-Rigged Election?" Oh please, tell me more!

I sincerely hope it was rigged. If we can't even fix an election in Iraq we should give up having a Foreign Affairs department of Government.
http://countrystudies.us/iraq/19.htm
"At the Cairo Conference of 1921, the British set the parameters for Iraqi political life that were to continue until the 1958 revolution; they chose Faisal as Iraq's first King; they established an indigenous Iraqi army; and they proposed a new treaty. To confirm Faisal as Iraq's first monarch, a one-question plebiscite was carefully arranged that had a return of 96 percent in his favor. "

- I read that a potential rival was kidnapped by the British and dumped in Sri Lanka - THAT'S the way to run an election:)