For the Americans and their Iraqi allies , achieving a respectable turnout among the 14 million registered voters , in the face of insurgent threats and a widespread boycott across predominantly Sunni areas , has become a critical test of the viability of transplanting American democratic ideals to Iraq so soon , relatively , after the quarter-century of repression by Saddam Hussein .
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