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Iraqi prisoners start voting in Referendum
13.10.2005
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Baghdad, 13 Oct.
(AKI) - Prisoners in Iraq started voting on Thursday
in the referendum on the constitution, two days
before the rest of the country goes to the urns.
The satellite TV channel Al-Arabiya reported that
the vote began on Thursday morning at the notorious
Abu Ghraib prison and prisoners throughout the
country have until 5pm local time to vote for or
against the charter.
Those prisoners still not brought to trial are
allowed to vote. It is not known if former dictator
Saddam Hussein has cast his vote, but the
Independent Electoral Commission has revealed that
he is allowed to.
"The referendum on the draft constitution started
early today in all Iraqi and US-run prisons in
Baghdad and other provinces," Husham Al-Suhail, an
official with Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, said in
an interview. "Our crews are observing the
referendum process at all of the prisons, including
Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca."
Iraq's Electoral Commission says 15.5 million of
Iraq's 27 million people are registered to vote in
the referendum, up from the 14.3 million registered
for the parliamentary elections on January 30 this
year.
If the constitution is passed, general elections
will be held no later than December 15 to form a new
government, which would be sworn in by December 31.
If it fails, the current parliament will be
dissolved and elections will be held by December 15
to elect a new interim parliament.
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