93% of registered Iraqi expats voted
31/01/2005 - 13:04:52About 93% of registered Iraqi expatriate voters cast absentee ballots in the country’s election, organisers said today.
The Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration, IOM, said that 265,148 Iraqi expatriate voters went to the special polls over three days in 14 countries.
While participation of the registered voters was unusually high, those who registered in a special nine-day campaign that ended January 25 represented only 23% of the estimated 1.2 million Iraqi expatriates.
“I have worked on many post-conflict out-of-country elections, but this is honestly the first time I have seen this level of emotion and excitement among voters,” said Peter Erben, who directed the project for IOM. Most recently he worked on the Afghanistan election.
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