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January 31, 2005
Some Just Voted for Food
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail
*BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (IPS) - Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of
food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.*
Many Iraqis said Monday that their names were marked on a list provided
by the government agency that provides monthly food rations before they
were allowed to vote.
”I went to the voting center and gave my name and district where I lived
to a man,” said Wassif Hamsa, a 32-year-old journalist who lives in the
predominantly Shia area Janila in Baghdad. ”This man then sent me to the
person who distributed my monthly food ration.”
Mohammed Ra'ad, an engineering student who lives in the Baya'a district
of the capital city reported a similar experience.
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