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Here's an interesting quote:

"This election is completely false. It insults democracy everywhere. Everything was based on fraud, cheating, frightening people and using religion to frighten the people," he said. "It is terrorism more than democracy."

Was the speaker from:
a) Florida
b) Ohio
c) Iraq
d) Somewhere with Diebold voting machines,
or
e) other

Answer:

C: Iraq

Sunni, Secular Groups Demand New Vote
Claims That Iraqi Ballot Was Rigged Threaten to Derail Government, Boost Insurgency

By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, December 21, 2005; Page A23

BAGHDAD, Dec. 20 -- Sunni and secular political groups angrily claimed Tuesday that last week's Iraqi national election was rigged, demanded a new vote and threatened to leave a shambles the delicate plan to bring the country's wary factions together in a new government.
...
And Saleh Mutlak, who headed an independent Sunni slate, said: "I don't think there is any practical point for us for being in this National Assembly if things stay like this.

"This election is completely false. It insults democracy everywhere. Everything was based on fraud, cheating, frightening people and using religion to frighten the people," he said. "It is terrorism more than democracy."

Mutlak said he had expected his slate to capture 70 parliament seats, but he said it seemed likely to win fewer than 20, according to the preliminary results.

Sounds like the Republican party's vision of democracy is indeed taking hold in Iraq.