At the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, hundreds of Central Valley residents who are eligible to vote in the upcoming National Assembly Election in Iraq will head to the El Toro Marine base south of Los Angeles to register to vote. The base, a 700 mile round trip from the departure point at the Assyrian Cultural Center in Ceres, is the only registration and polling site west of the Mississippi River. Many like long-time exile Sargon Dedasho have waited years to be able to participate in Iraqi politics. DEDASHO :10—There will be a long caravan leaving this area. Probably about three to four hundred people. Then we’ll do the same thing the following week, the following Saturday for the vote. There are some 40-thousand Iraqis living in Northern California. Relatively few of them are expected to participate in the election, because of the long the trip to the polling site. Bob Hensley KXJZ News.