[lbo-talk] The "myth" of Hamas's wide margin

[joanna]

I got it from an article in the SF Chronicle that I've been looking for 
since then. Basically it said that due to check point problems and the 
fact that people in the refugee camps were not allowed to vote, a lot of 
Palestinians didn't get to vote.

Joanna

Yoshie Furuhashi 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
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> 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>).
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> Yoshie Furuhashi
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