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Nashville "Little Kurdistan" to again be
site for Iraqi voting
10.12.2005
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Nashville will be one of
seven U.S. sites for next week's Iraqi parliamentary
election, officials announced today.
The others are Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit,
Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, according
to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.
Both registration and voting will be held over three
days, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, at 418
Harding Industrial Drive in south Nashville. The
election is to seat 275 positions on Iraq's Council
of Representatives, which will convene by Dec. 31
and serve four years.
In a January election held to choose Iraq’s
Transitional National Assembly, 3,744 Iraqis voted
in Nashville, officials said after that election.
Next week, voters are again expected to converge
here from across the Southeast. The council replaces
the national assembly.
Nashville is sometimes referred to as "Little
Kurdistan" for its sizable Kurdish population of
about 8,000 people.
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