UN Iraq election experts visit Oly
Secretary of State Sam Reed and election officials recently had high-level United Nations election experts as visitors at the Capitol — and it all came about by local connections. Sandra Mitchell, an American who serves as chief technical adviser to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Baghdad, and Robert Langridge, an Aussie who serves as elections security adviser, are on furlough and visiting Mitchell’s Seattle-area friends and family. They came to Olympia to talk elections with Reed, one of the country’s senior state…