Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
The chairman of the Independent Election Commission of Iraq, Fareed Ayar, said as many as 8 million people turned out to vote, or between 55 percent and 60 percent of those registered to cast ballots. If 8 million turns out to be the final figure, that would represent 57 percent of voters.
The CIA's World Factbook says that Iraq's populations was estimated last July to be 25,374,691.
My prediction is that a constitution will be drafted and then in October Iraqis will be told they have to vote for this or face a terrible future. posted by micah holmquist at 1/30/2005 09:24:00 PM