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since the morning and polling operations started for displaced Iraqis located outside of Iraq, after the first phase of the elections ended Thursday, Which included the employees of the security services, army and police, prisoners, the sick and continue for three days.
The early voting for the army and police took place amid violence that left 17 dead and wounded
Iraqis in 16 Arab countries and in Europe and America went to elect their representatives , when there are no official statistics of the number of Iraqis abroad, estimated by the High Commissioner for Refugees, as hundreds of thousands while according to the Iraqi government the numbers around two million, while sources confirm in humanitarian organizations that they exceed five million spread over Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, United Arab Emirates and the European countries, as well as America, Canada and Australia.
There have been rumors about attempts by influential parties in the government of Iraq to keep them away from the elections and the accussing the of being Baathists and opponents of the political process and allowing them to vote for the election means they will support people who will effect the political process
This lead to rumors of attempts to deprived many Iraqis of elections in Yemen, Belgium, Malaysia, Indonesia
several attempts by some political Iraq to draw attention to the outside and carrying Iraqi by the Election Commission to open stations to vote for Iraqis abroad and visits from some politicians, including Tareq al-Hashemi, Iyad Allawi, and others, which organized rallies in order to gain their votes and making promises to improve their conditions
The election Commission announced the opening of centers in both Syria and Jordan, Iran, Egypt, UAE, Lebanon and Turkey, as well as Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Austria and Denmark, to the United States, Canada and Australia.

The Commission has allocated to the voters more than 1000 stations, spread over 45 cities were selected according to the intensity of Iraqis in these countries.
Rumors of many people in Iran were not able to vote and in Syria after the commission ask them to bring new Iraqi passports and refuse to acknowledge old passports

fears of fraud marred the vote of which is still subject to the direct administration of the Iraqi government. private polling stations abroad were without observers or from the Arab League or international observers
many complaines from the candidates about not being able to censorship by a vote of the armed forces.
According to the law, the vote took place with the presence of the agents of the candidates , while the voting stations of the armed forces fall within the security zones was difficult to access, lead to increasing uncertainty and the possibility of election fraud.
With rise of many complaining from agents to monter the elections not being able to access to such centers surrounded by the guise of security. With frequent loss of information on the closing of ballot boxes in Najaf and Karbala. Rumors of an Iraqi ink used in the vote of the electorate that the worst kinds of ink can be removed from the voting forms easily.
For its part, showed the Shiite authority in Najaf Wednesday concern about the Iraqi government’s attempts to rig the elections through the use of pens can erase ink on the voting papers before the special voting coalitions amid warnings of fraud in the absence of control of Parliament

, also the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari,accussed the neighboring countries of trying to influence the results of the elections held next Sunday,

Zebari did not speak for the actions of specific, but said that the intervention included financial support for certain parties

According to the candidate from the Iraqis list, lead by former PM alawy, they will challenge the results of the special ballot, pointing to the monitoring list for many “irregularities” in the special ballot.
And talked About the incident of helicopters droppeing leaflets in different parts of Baghdad, the latest in Adhamiya, in the Mansour district, against the Iraqi Listand asking people not to vote for it
The deputies of al-tawafiq and Iraqi list announced that the process of voting in legislative elections that took place today, was marred by significant breaches,
As Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday,accussed one of the political figures he declined to name, to compromise the electoral process by trying to storm into the polling station after closure, while it detects that the security forces in Anbar province, detained a number of officers attempted to practice fraud in the voting sector.

Many of the employees of the security forces in the various governorates of Iraq did not cast their ballots due to the absence of names in the voter registers for the private ballot.
The Electoral Commission acknowledged that there was a shortage of the names of the employees of army , but attributed this to lack of cooperation and defense and interior ministries with it, and indicated that the two have delayed sending the names until yesterday, and most of those names ware not clear,
However, they said it would equip the centers securities and tools required to sign at the same time that those who were unable to vote in the special ballot may vote in the suffrage on Sunday.
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A source in the Electoral Commission in Rusafa side of Baghdad, Friday, said that 75 thousand to 80 thousand observers and an agent of a political entity registered to monitor the voting process on 7 March
While on Friday the preachers in the city of Mosul, urged people to participate in the elections and choose the best, as well as to scrutinize the candidate’s curriculum vitae and his achievements, and not there propaganda and slogans.
Refrences:
Iraqi media network
Sumaria news
NCCI.ORG
Independent observers