voter is.
The vote on the new Iraqi constitution is to be held on 15 Oct 2005. As you may know, for the referendum to fail, two-thirds of the voters in 3 of Iraq's 19 provinces must reject it.
And therein lies the key:
In the new rules, the legislators designated two different meanings for the word "voters" in a single passage where the word appears to mean the same thing. That set off accusations by Sunni Arab leaders and independent political figures that Shiite and Kurdish legislators were using an unfair double standard to achieve their goal of seeing the constitution passed.
"When there is a contradiction on two different interpretations within one text, that would become an issue," Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for Secretary General Kofi Annan, said in a news conference at the United Nations. (NYTimes)
Perhaps I am not the only one that can see the fingerprints of Mr. Cheney on this. While he may not of thought of it himself, it certainly was run by him for approval (like the Plame outing).
This likely will get lost in all the other things now slamming the American people, and it is understandably so.