Voter fraud in the sunni triangle.

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their terrorist violence or protests. They suffer from the delusion of
individual and collective tribal religious fundamentalism.



The election commission's Mr. Ayar, responding to thousands of complaints
of election violations, intimidation and fraud, acknowledged that some
cheating had taken place.
"We will cancel the votes in some centers in Baghdad, Irbil and
Kirkuk -- we discovered fraud there," Mr. Ayar said in a telephone interview
from Baghdad. "They will be declared invalid."
But, Mr. Ayar said, voiding those ballots would not be enough to
significantly alter the outcome. The election results so far show the
Shi'ite religious alliance with a commanding lead over the Kurdish party and
new Sunni coalitions.
"When you cancel some 10 centers out of 6,230 it will not make huge or
dramatic changes," Mr. Ayar said.
The Western diplomat said an initial complete count could be announced
as early as the end of this week, but that final certified results -- which
will determine the balance of power in Iraq for the next four years -- may
not be announced until early next month.
"They are getting very close, but there have been literally thousands of
complaints to go through. There are some 2,000 reports of alleged
irregularities," the diplomat said.
But the diplomat did not expect the fervor around the vote results and
reports of violations to derail the process.
"The problems are a bump in the road, but it is not a crisis," he said.
Sunni-led street demonstrations against the violations, and threats of
widespread civil protests, did not seem to be affecting closed-door
negotiations among political factions, the diplomat said.
The political leaders of the complaining group "actually want to
negotiate entry into the government, and they want to do it from the
strongest position possible," the diplomat said.
"There are people flying around Iraq and holding meetings," he said.
"There are discussions between the Sunni groups and Kurds and Shi'ite
Islamists, there are discussions between Kurds and Shi'ites, and there are
discussion between Kurds and Sunni Arabs -- everyone is talking to
everybody."
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