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Iraqis May Extend Election Amid Violence

Wed Dec 8, 2004 04:21 PM ET

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.

Responding to a suggestion this week by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that voting could be spread over two or three weeks, the Independent Electoral Commission said it would consider such a proposal if the government were to make it formally.

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