On election day an Iraqi journalist visited West Baghdad, an area which mostly boycotted the last election. The reporter interviewed a number of Iraqis. Here’s Abu Rami:
We are a displaced family. We were told that we could only vote where our ration card is issued. How do they expect us to go vote in the neighbourhood from which we were displaced? All the world knows that there are millions of Iraqis displaced inside Iraq – couldn’t the Elections Commission place a box for the displaced in every centre? We have been issued IDs stating that we are displaced – Is corruption so wide spread that they don’t trust their own IDs?
The Dish 