Iraq Voter Turnout Estimated at 70 Percent

Since all we ever hear is bad news when it come's to Iraq...how about some good news in this forum for once:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/16/D8EHDMAG6.html

I think those numbers are better than Canada. :-/

Yeah, when 70 percent of your voters turn out, you get a real good picture how they want things to be run.

The really amazing thing is that they put their lives at great risk just to go vote. How many of our fellow Americans would go vote under such circumstances? I'd bet the turnout would be in the 20-30% range if that.

What does voting mean?

vote
n.

A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue.
A means by which such a preference is made known, such as a raised hand or a marked ballot.
The number of votes cast in an election or to resolve an issue: a heavy vote in favor of the bill.
A group of voters alike in some way: the Black vote; the rural vote.
The act or process of voting: took a vote on the issue.
The result of an election or referendum.
The right to participate as a voter; suffrage.

v. vot·ed, vot·ing, votes
v. intr.
To express one's preference for a candidate or for a proposed resolution of an issue; cast a vote: voting against the measure.
To express a choice or an opinion.

v. tr.
To express one's preference for by vote: voted the straight Republican ticket.
To decide the disposition of by vote, as by electing or defeating: vote in a new mayor; voted out their representative; vote down the amendment.
To bring into existence or make available by vote: vote new funds for a program.
To be guided by in voting: vote one's conscience.
To declare or pronounce by general consent: voted the play a success.
Informal. To state as a preference or opinion: I vote we eat out tonight.

Hope that helps... lafs

Thats wierd i just asked a bunch of my coworkers and they said they never heard of it before. Thaks for the info.

vote
n.

A formal expression of preference for a candidate for an office that is corrupt no matter which side heads it because the candidates eat from two hands, the people's and the corporations'.

The "vote" still exists to placate the 30% of the domestic population that hasn't already figured out that our system is broken because our forefathers didn't exist in an epoch of corporations and consequently didn't write laws to protect us from them or from giving them rights that should be reserved for human beings. Contemporary voting blocs are increasingly predetermined using technology that has been successfully employed in the private sector for years by companies like Acxiom to target and obtain customers for corporate goods through aggressive marketing. This technology utilizes algorithms that find statistically significant correlations between the buying habits, age, sex, location, and education of everyone who has ever had credit, filled out an online poll, had a magazine subscription, or bought things online (and in about 10 years when they are of voting age, having played neopets and other immersive marketing environments) in order to classify people into behavioral and belief groups and identify what voting issues are most important to them.

This technology has proven invaluable in the last presidential election (for Liberals and Republicans) and an early test case involved rallying rural people to the Republican party around state flag issues.

This technology, when the U.S. government was going to push their own version (called T.I.A., Total Information Awareness) forward to identify potential enemies of state, was considered too "scary" and unethical and was blocked... but it is apparently okay for the commercial and private sectors, as well as political parties, to go gung ho with it.

Enjoy your vote.

vote
n.

2: making a formal expression of preference of what is already known to any company or party with good marketing data