{"id":2441,"date":"2005-10-18T00:35:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-18T00:35:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T07:35:44","slug":"the-count-was-fair-and-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/18\/the-count-was-fair-and-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"The count was fair and accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Iraqi election officials <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/17\/international\/middleeast\/17cnd-ballot.html?ei=5094&#038;en=6b936c6ff54e6da8&#038;hp=&#038;ex=1129608000&#038;partner=homepage&#038;pagewanted=print\">said today<\/A> that they were investigating what they described as &#8220;unusually high&#8221; vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where as many 99 percent of the voters were reported to have cast ballots in favor of Iraq&#8217;s new constitution, raising the possibility that the results of Saturday&#8217;s referendum could be called into question.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<CENTER>***********************<\/CENTER><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2331951.stm\">Saddam &#8216;wins 100% of vote&#8217;<\/A><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>There were 11,445,638 eligible voters &#8211; and every one of them voted for the president, according to Izzat Ibrahim, Vice-Chairman of Iraq&#8217;s Revolutionary Command Council.<\/p>\n<p>The government insists the count was fair and accurate. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi election officials said today that they were investigating what they described as &#8220;unusually high&#8221; vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where as many 99 percent of the voters were reported to have cast ballots in favor of Iraq&#8217;s new constitution, raising the possibility that the results of Saturday&#8217;s referendum could be called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}