Reply #5: Hundreds of Iraqis protest alleged voting irregularities (outside Green Zo

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Hundreds of Iraqis have gathered outside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone to protest alleged voting irregularities in Mosul that they say prevented tens of thousands from casting ballots.

The demonstrators were mainly Iraqi Christians, Turkomen and Yazidis -- members of a small religion in the north

Shouting slogans and waiving Iraqi flags, they claimed polling centers never opened in their neighborhoods in the turbulent northern city and in the surrounding province, disenfranchising some 200-thousand people.

Electoral commission officials in Baghdad have acknowledged that many polling sites never opened or opened late for the historic national assembly election January 30th. Some of those that did open could not be supplied with ballots and other election materials.

... wow! They really do have American-style Democracy!