Won't having indelible blue ink on your hand be a death sentence?

[Swede]

Everyone who votes in Iraq gets indelible ink stamp on their hand.

[toymachines]

1. thats not cool

now we are branding them... great.

[bryant69]

2. Do you have a source on that?

Not that I doubt it too much.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Swede]

5. I just saw it on CNN

It is to prevent voter fraud.

[fryguy]

9. link and picture

An Iraqi man shows his right index finger stained with blue ink after his casting his vote in an Amman polling station, January 28, 2005.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20050128/wl_nm/iraq_election_exiles_dc

[fryguy]

3. this is ripe for voter fraud

all they'd have to do is chop off their hand and they can vote a second time....

/sarcasm

[Lautremont]

4. They ought to provide hand-merkins on the way out.

Though that might present a whole other set of difficulties.

[WildClarySage]

6. Is this the same indelible ink they used in Afghanistan?

[w13rd0]

7. Yeah, the kind that can be washed off...

...with a quick scrubbing...

NPR interviewed some Afghani that was bragging that he'd sold his vote 20+ times and voted repeatedly, several times at the same place...

[fryguy]

10. maybe same ink, but it covers the whole finger....unlike in Afghanistan

An Iraqi man shows his right index finger stained with blue ink after his casting his vote in an Amman polling station, January 28, 2005.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Why not just issue a large target to attach to their back....

and be done with it. I heard about the ink on the radio last night and just shook my head in dismay. Local shopkeepers are reporting brisk sales on gloves.