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In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
Security forces with special early voting status have cast their ballots in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq for the Iraqi parliamentary election.
There are 247,422 registered early voters in the Kurdistan Region voting in 99 polling stations.
This is the first time Iraq is using an electronic voting system that hit some glitches on Thursday. Problems were reported at polling stations in Baghdad and Erbil with fingerprint readers breaking down and technical delays reading ID cards, leading to slow-moving queues.
The head of the electoral commission, however, said that there was no record of interference in the electronic devices, Iraqi state TV reported.
The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee warned earlier this week it has received intelligence suggesting some political parties are trying to sabotage voting machines ahead of the May 12 election so that electronic voting is scrapped and replaced with the manual system that is more susceptible to manipulation.
Polls closed at 5pm.
The general population will vote on Saturday. Security is expected to be tight after ISIS threatened to attack polling stations in an attempt to disrupt the first vote since the group's military defeat in the country.
There are 247,422 registered early voters in the Kurdistan Region voting in 99 polling stations.
This is the first time Iraq is using an electronic voting system that hit some glitches on Thursday. Problems were reported at polling stations in Baghdad and Erbil with fingerprint readers breaking down and technical delays reading ID cards, leading to slow-moving queues.
The head of the electoral commission, however, said that there was no record of interference in the electronic devices, Iraqi state TV reported.
The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee warned earlier this week it has received intelligence suggesting some political parties are trying to sabotage voting machines ahead of the May 12 election so that electronic voting is scrapped and replaced with the manual system that is more susceptible to manipulation.
Polls closed at 5pm.
The general population will vote on Saturday. Security is expected to be tight after ISIS threatened to attack polling stations in an attempt to disrupt the first vote since the group's military defeat in the country.
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In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots
In pictures: Peshmerga and Asayesh cast their ballots