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Los Angeles<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, twice this month, to register and vote for <\/SPAN> “It’s very important. We have to go and vote,” said Toma, whose Assyrian Christian family came to the <\/SPAN> “I’m going to take my mom, and my dad, and my daughter Zalma, and my sister-in-law,” said Toma, whose husband will go as well. Some 2,674 county residents listed <\/SPAN> She said it’s important, because “I want the Assyrian people to be safe in our homeland.” “We are the least represented minority (in <\/SPAN> That means the closest polling place for <\/SPAN> A five-day waiting period will follow, to allow inspection of voting rolls. Then, from Jan. 28-30, voters will go back to the polling sites to vote. “It’s really difficult to travel to <\/SPAN> Isaac said local Assyrian groups have been discussing whether to charter buses to and from the polling sites. “Whether it’s one day or two days, I will take time off from my work and go,” she said. “Even if it’s 10 times, I’m going. And if there’s no buses, I’ll rent a van. I want to be there.” Would you drive 320 miles to vote? Would you do it twice in a single month? Iraq – Los Angeles – AINA Los Angeles, twice this month, to register and vote for Iraq‘s new National Assembly. “It’s very important. We have to go and vote,” said Toma, whose Assyrian Christian family came to the United …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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“We’re all planning to vote,” said Zalma Toma, 21, who was born in the <\/SPAN>
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Assyrians, along with other Christian groups (Chaldeans and Syriacs), make up about 3 percent of <\/SPAN>
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But it won’t be easy. Just five <\/SPAN>
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They’ll have to register in person between Monday and Jan. 23. Registrants must bring at least two identification documents.
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Ashur Shiba, 25, of <\/SPAN>
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He said he plans to vote but is concerned that not everyone can take two days off from work.
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Toma said she’ll vote, no matter how inconvenient it is.
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\nBy Blair Craddock
\nModesto Bee<\/p>\n
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