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TIL: The 2002 Iraqi presidential referendum, according to “official statistics”, had a “100% turnout” in which every eligible voter in the country of 11.4 million, supposedly voted “yes” to continuing Saddam Hussein’s rule. Not a single vote for “no”.

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