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It's not only the identity of most of the candidates that remains hidden in Iraq five days ahead of polling; the location of many polling stations still remains a mystery - hardly surprising, since some of those that have been announced have been bombed by insurgents.
Most reporting from polling stations suggests that the big winners, as expected, will be the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, backed by Sistani. But the extent of its dominance remains to be seen. There were indications in the weeks preceding the election that the coalition of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi...
Security remains the major obstacle to holding a credible election on January 30, because of the insurgency's unchecked ability to wreak havoc at the polls. The goal of the insurgents is to keep voter turnout as low as possible, in order to deny the election legitimacy. U.S. and Iraqi...
Who is Supervising the Election? The final authority over the January 30 election, including the authority to postpone the vote, rests with the Independent Iraqi Electoral Commission. The IIEC was appointed by UN election expert Carina Perelli, and consists of eight low-profile Iraqi technocrats with no party political affiliations...
The U.S. and Iraqi interim governments are committed to providing security to voters going the polls. The U.S. had hoped to keep its own troops away from the polling stations, both to avoid making them targets and because their presence there would cast an unwelcome American shadow over the proceedings...