Commission that USA set up says no sign of serious Iraq vote violations

[NNN0LHI]

Boy that sure is a relief.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Electoral_Commission_of_Iraq

Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq

The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) is Iraq's electoral commission. It was set up in May 2004 by the Coalition Provisional Authority to begin work towards holding an election in the country. The electoral commission is headed by a nine member board. Seven of those members are voting and must be Iraqi citizens. The other two members are the Chief Electoral Officer and an outside expert appointed by the United Nations. In the 2005 election the expert was Colombian Carlos Valenzuela. The current Chief Electoral Officer is Adil Lami. The commission set up and ran the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election as well as the simultaneous elections for provincial governments and the Kurdistan Regional Government. It also set up the voting places in fourteen nations outside of Iraq. The Commission is also tasked with dealing with complaints about the election. In the lead up to the 2005 election the Commission had some 6000 employees. Several Commission workers were killed by insurgents. Many more quit because of the danger, or refused to go to dangerous parts of the country.



http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6183155&cKey=1129992638000

No sign of serious Iraq vote violations

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said on Saturday it had found no instances of serious fraud in an October 15 constitutional referendum and was still verifying some results only because of statistical issues.

IECI commissioner Adil Al-Lami said it would take some days before there was a final announcement of results but gave no date.

He gave partial results for 13 of Iraq's 18 provinces, of which only one returned a two-thirds majority "no" vote. Two more provinces would need to do so in order to block the constitution.

Lami told a news conference only a small proportion of ballots had been brought to Baghdad and the results published so far were extremely limited.

[afdip]

1. the fox has declared the henhouse safe . . . we can rest easy

[RagingInMiami]

2. Well that cleared that up

I was beginning to get suspicious.