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Bahrain annuls e-voting to ease Shiias anger
By: Ali Al-Qadumi
MANAMA, Bahrain: The Bahraini government decided
to annul electronic voting planned for later this year after
opposition parties said such methods aim to rig the vote and
disenfranchise the country's Shiite majority, a Cabinet
minister said.
The announcement was made by Sheik Ahmed bin Atiyatallah Al
Khalifa, Bahrain's minister of state for cabinet affairs,
after a meeting of several political parties - some of which
complained electronic voting was unfair. Seven other
organizations opposed to electronic voting boycotted the
meeting.
"For the national interest, we have asked the executive
director of the elections not to implement electronic voting
in the 2006 elections and to implement the mechanism used in
2002," Al Khalifa said after the meeting.
The decision also came a day after thousands of protesters
demonstrated peacefully to urge the government to stop
granting citizenship to migrants ahead of the elections.
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Bahrain Shiias protest govt policy to alter country's demographics
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MANAMA, Bahrain: Thousands of Bahraini Shiias on Friday September 29 demonstrated in Manama against what they say is a government strategy to grant citizenship to non-Shiia Muslims from other Arab countries to alter the country's demographics. Police fired tear gas to push back the demonstrators during the protest.
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