"You forgot Djibouti" Sneak preview of how they'll spin low turnout

[Cocoa]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5C%5CForeignBureaus%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200501%5C%5CFOR20050127b.html

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Several commentators have referred to a turnout threshold of 50 percent of registered voters, suggesting that anything less than that would be a failure.

But according to statistics collated by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), more than a dozen elections around the world in the past two years alone have had voter turnouts of less than 50 percent -- in Djibouti, Montenegro, Nigeria, Scotland, Mexico, Switzerland, Serbia, Guatemala, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Niger and Hungary.

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[Merlot]

1. Doesn't that list include the US?

[Wickerman]

2. What percent of eligible voters registered?

I thought I read that even Iraqi's living abroad are not registering because they do not consider this a valid election.

[K-W]

3. In Iraq they use Saddams food distribution info

to get names. So people dont have to specifically register, they just need thier food info.

[Robbien]

4. The Iraqi government said there were 14 million registered

Iraqis in Iraq. Seems unbelievable.