A man dipped his finger in ink after voting in provincial elections on Wednesday at the Medical City hospital in Baghdad. Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images (New York Times)Big Turnout As Iraqis Vote In First Stage Of Election -- AFP
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Several hundred thousand Iraqis voted on Wednesday in the first stage of a landmark provincial election, the country's first ballot since 2005, with officials reporting a high turnout.
The voting was held ahead of Saturday's main polling day to try to avoid the security, logistical and electoral fraud problems which plagued the parliamentary election of January 2005 when the vote was held on a single day.
About 617,000 police, soldiers, hospital patients and prisoners were eligible to cast advance ballots at 1,669 polling stations.
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