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Iraq to release vote findings soon
Iraq's election commission will announce results of its investigation into allegations of vote fraud on Monday, officials said.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 January 16, 2006
Baghdad: Iraq's election commission will announce results of its investigation into allegations of vote fraud on Monday, officials said.
A total of 2,000 complaints were filed, but the Independent Electoral Commision of Iraq (IECI) only worked through 50 serious complaints, said IECI official Safwat Rashid.
Final election results have been delayed by Sunni Arab complaints of fraud. Officials say it could take two to three months before an interim government could be formed.
Some 900 ballot boxes were checked for problems and a minority of those will be thrown out, Rashid said.
The international team assessing the IECI's handling of the voting process also said it would release its final report on Thursday.
"The work of the team has been going fast, so we decided there is no need for a preliminary report," said Mazin Shuaib of the International Mission for Iraqi Elections.
Also on Monday, a US helicopter was shot down with a rocket north of Baghdad, witnesses said.
There was no immediate word on the fate of the crew, and the US military said it was checking the incident.
One witness said that US troops surrounded the crash site in the town of Mishahda and that smoke was billowing from the area.
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