On 1/27/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> > Keep in mind however that 70% of potential voters didn't get to
> > vote either because of obstacles put in their way. An effort was
> > made to make voting easy for Fatah voters and hard to impossible
> > for Hamas. Therefore the win for Hamas is in fact bigger than a few
> > percentage points.
> > Joanna
>
>
> Where did you get that percentage? What I saw generally claimed a
> high turnout, except East Jerusalem: e.g., "According to the CEC, 77
> percent of the 1.3 million registered voters cast their ballots in
> 1,100 polling stations throughout sixteen districts yesterday. Voter
> turnout reached 74 percent in the West Bank, 82 percent in the Gaza
> Strip and 46 percent in the suburbs of East Jerusalem" (at <http://
> www.counterpunch.org/assad01272006.html>).
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
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