1.5 million votes are threatened with cancellation due to a loophole in the closing time of the poll

[size=52]1.5 million votes are threatened with cancellation due to a loophole in the closing time of the polls[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]More than a million votes in the October poll are threatened with cancellation due to a “gap” at the time of closing polls. These votes, which may be canceled outweigh the votes of the first winner in the elections, which means a change in about 70 seats. And winning candidates in the elections outside political parties and alliances believe that “cancelling” boxes because of exceeding the closing time is an “assassination of the votes of independents.”[/size]
[size=45]So far, it has been revealed that 8 losing candidates have returned to the ranks of the winners in Babylon, Baghdad and Kurdistan due to a “problem” at the time of closing the boxes. It is expected that the number of winners will increase in the event that the suspicious funds continue to be canceled, although the problem of “the timing of the closure” was present in the 2018 elections, but at that time no one raised it! The results of the elections, which took place more than a month ago, are facing the most severe criticism and rejection campaign by most Shiite political forces that call themselves the "coordinating framework." In the past weeks, these parties began to escalate their demands from conducting a comprehensive manual counting and sorting, to demanding the annulment of the results and the rerun of the elections.[/size]
[size=45]Accused funds![/size]
[size=45]Hussein Arab, the former deputy and the winning individual candidate for Baghdad, told Al-Mada that "18% of the polls closed after six o'clock, but the votes of independents were deliberately cancelled."[/size]
[size=45]The number of ballot boxes across Iraq reached about 58 thousand, which means that the cancellation of the polls whose closing time exceeded six o'clock is more than 10 thousand.[/size]
[size=45]According to a previous statement by the Electoral Commission, the maximum limit for each box is 450 papers, while it is likely that the number of votes within those boxes “accused of fraud” may equal about one million and 500 thousand votes (an average of 150 sheets per station).[/size]
[size=45]These votes exceed what the Sadrist movement obtained, which collected 800,000 votes and won 73 seats.[/size]
[size=45]More than a week ago, the Judicial Authority for Elections began examining the appeals against the election results, after doubts about the time of closing the polls.[/size]
[size=45]Voices invalidate[/size]
[size=45]A winning candidate in Babel revealed that he lost his seat in favor of the R's candidate, the former State of Law MP, Sadiq Madlool.[/size]
[size=45]Amir Al-Maamouri, who received more than 6,000 votes in the second district in Babylon, confirmed that he lost about 250 votes after the judiciary canceled stations for the elections due to the late closing time.[/size]
[size=45]It is assumed that the polls close electronically at six o'clock in the evening of the polling day, which took place on the tenth of last October.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the signifier of (6493 votes), this time a candidate for the State Forces Alliance led by Ammar al-Hakim, had about 300 votes canceled due to the late closure of two stations in Babylon.[/size]
[size=45]Hussein Arab, head of the Irada bloc in Parliament in 2018, asserts that "what is happening is an assassination of the votes of individual candidates, and a prelude to canceling their votes."[/size]
[size=45]In addition to Al-Mamouri, the votes of Haitham Fahd in Basra, an individual candidate (6967 votes), were canceled after a complaint submitted by candidate Rafiq Al-Salihi from the Al-Fateh Alliance (6817 votes).[/size]
[size=45]Individual candidates won 40 seats in the next parliament, while the number of voters who voted for candidates outside the parties was estimated at about one million and 800 thousand votes.[/size]
[size=45]Return of the losers[/size]
[size=45]According to some leaks, former deputy and defense minister Khaled al-Obeidi, the losing candidate from the Azm Alliance in Baghdad, was returned to the ranks of the winners (he got more than 4,000 votes).[/size]
[size=45]Al-Obaidi was reinstated in the place of the National Contract candidate affiliated with the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh Al-Fayyad, Abbas Hussein Saleh.[/size]
[size=45]The candidate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kamal Agha, also rose in the city of Erbil, instead of Layla Akram Saeed, the candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.[/size]
[size=45]And the victory of the National Union candidate, Ronzi Ziad Sido, instead of the Democratic Party candidate, Abd al-Salam Shaaban Barzanji, in Nineveh.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to the victory of Gharib Askar Naji, the candidate of the Al-Fateh coalition led by Hadi Al-Amiri, instead of the Turkmen candidate, Sawsan Abdel Wahed Shaker, in Kirkuk governorate.[/size]
[size=45]Demonstrators affiliated with the political parties rejecting the elections have been standing in front of the gates of the Green Zone for about a month.[/size]
[size=45]stabbing the conquest[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Hadi Al-Amiri said that the appeal submitted by the Al-Fateh Alliance to the Federal Court last Thursday "has sufficient evidence to annul the election results."[/size]
[size=45]And Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, led by Qais Khazali, had announced filing a lawsuit before the Federal Court to annul the election results.[/size]
[size=45]Mahmoud al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the “Sadiquon” parliamentary bloc led by Khazali, which is the political wing of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, said: “The Al-Fateh coalition has filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court to demand the annulment of the election results.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie explained in previous statements that “the lawsuit filed by the Al-Fateh Alliance is accompanied by technical and legal evidence,” adding that the Al-Fateh Alliance “submitted a request to the Federal Court to stop the ratification of the results until the case is decided.”[/size]
[size=45]closing time[/size]
[size=45]Some election winners refuse to "punish" the candidates because of a dispute over the problem of when polls close.[/size]
[size=45]Hussein Arab says: "This is not our fault. This is the problem of the Commission and the German company that examines the equipment used in voting."[/size]
[size=45]Arab confirms that the time that appeared on the ballot box tapes is "the time when the tape was printed, not the time when the ballot box was closed."[/size]
[size=45]Some tapes showed that the closing time of the boxes was at six o'clock, with 5 to 45 minutes for some stations.[/size]
[size=45]According to Sarbast Mustafa, the former head of the Electoral Commission, these times are "not the time to close the box, nor the time to print the results sheet."[/size]
[size=45]Mustafa told (Al-Mada) that "every ballot box has a timer, and this timer remains counted if it is not disconnected from the electricity."[/size]
[size=45]The former head of the Commission indicated that "in some stations, disconnecting the fund from the electricity was delayed until midnight because they were busy with manual counting and sorting."[/size]
[size=45]Mustafa confirms that these devices and funds are the same ones that were used in the previous 2018 elections, but at the time, “no one talked about this problem because it is not important.”[/size]
[size=45]Before the polling day, the commission carried out more than one simulation of the electoral process in the presence of the prime ministers and the republic.[/size]
[size=45]Hussein Arab says that "the objection this time to the closing time is due to the severe loss suffered by some political forces."[/size]
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