Subject: ABC: External voting in E Timor poll not
complicated: organisers
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:01:28 -0400
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>Australian Broadcasting
Corporation
Sunday 6 June, 1999
External voting in E Timor poll not complicated: organisers
The International Organisation for Migration says the voting process for Timorese
people living outside East Timor will be the same as the internal process.
The organisation, which is conducting the August external vote for Timorese people
living in other countries, is currently based in Darwin.
The organisation's Jeff Labovitz says his organisation will be conducting polls in
Indonesia, Portugal, Macau, the United States and Mozambique.
"Right now we're involved for the sixth time in Bosnia, which is called
out-of-country voting, and this'll be the seventh external voting for East Timor," he
said.
"It can be very complicated, the Bosnia operation is much more complicated than
the East Timor one, because you are dealing with the boundaries between entities and
muncipalities, while this one itself is a 'yes-no' question."
© 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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