Legislative elections in Iraq: manual recount of votes



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The High Electoral Commission continued the process of counting and counting the votes of the legislative elections that Iraq witnessed on May 12, which began a week ago in Kirkuk province in the north from the capital.

The Commission has nine judges appointed by the Superior Council of the Judiciary in place of former members of the Commission on suspicion of fraud. Laith Hamza, the official spokesman, said the manual recount in Baghdad included "ballot boxes for polling stations and complaints offices in the provinces of Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Muthanna, Qadisiya and Wasit" in the south of the country.

The Commission announced on June 24 that the recount will be partial in areas where complaints have been lodged both inside and outside the country.
She pointed out that she ordered the transfer of questionable funds to places dedicated to Baghdad.

UNHCR's Baghdad leader Imad Jamil told AFP that counting and sorting in the capital included about 500 polling stations.

Journalists who had been in the area since morning in front of the headquarters of the operation at the Baghdad International Fair in the center of the capital were not allowed to enter the site except for Iraqi state television.
According to AFP, the number of suspects is 90 in Basrah province, 67 in Maysan province, 113 in Dhi Qar province, 19 in Wasit province, 93 in Muthanna province, and 85 in the province. in the province of Diwaniya.

At the same time, recounts began manually in Sulaymaniyah province in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

The Commission began on July 3 the first stages of manual recount and sorting in Kirkuk province, north of Baghdad.
It has not yet been officially announced whether a difference in votes has been found, and the magnitude of this variation in Kirkuk.

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