"The Iraqi Public Gets to Decide"; That Says it All

U.N. Official Says Iraqi Vote 'Is on Track'
By Doug Struck/Washington Post Foreign Service
Original Article

BAGHDAD, Jan. 16 -- The voting lists have been checked, the ballots printed. Red stain is ready to mark the finger of each voter, and the poll locations and names of candidates -- until now secret -- soon will be published. Despite threats, a rushed timetable and the murder of eight election workers, preparations for Iraq's elections are almost finished, according to the U.N. representative on the country's elections board.