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Palestinian legislative election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here's a nice little page that outlines the statistics of the 2006 Palestinian elections. It appears that out of 990,00+ votes cast, 440,000+ voted for Hamas.

So what about those 555,000 people that didn't vote for Hamas on election day? What about the 25% of Palestinians who did not vote at all?

We're not talking about personal angst that a person might feel for voting an asshole like George Bush. We're talking about 1200+ people who are dead. Almost a third of them being children and I highly doubt anyone in the Gaza Strip was asked where their sympathies lie while their world was being blown to hell and back.

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