In Iraq, on Friday morning, the voting process for members of the security and military institutions from the Ministries of Defense and Interior began in the early legislative elections scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday.
Members of the anti-terrorist forces, members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and members of the Interior Ministry in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, in addition to the displaced and prison inmates, participate in these voting processes.
The director of Al-Jazeera office in Erbil, Ahmed Al-Zawiti, spoke in front of one of the polling stations for the displaced who were covered by the special vote, and said that the turnout was still very low, at a time when large turnout was recorded in the polling stations of the security forces and the Peshmerga.
Speaking in front of one of the polling stations for members of the security institutions, Walid Ibrahim, the director of Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad, said that the process is taking place so far at a slow pace, knowing that it is still in its early hours, and the turnout is expected to improve in the coming hours, noting that the process was preceded by security measures. Tough, in which the Air Force participated for the first time in order to secure the electoral process.
In a related context, the spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, said that the security authorities will not allow any party, under any name, to use weapons to influence the elections scheduled for the tenth of this month.
Al-Khafaji explained, in a statement to Al-Jazeera, that the votes obtained by any candidate or party that intimidate voters with weapons or threats will be withheld.
electoral information
The special voting process will take place for one day only, starting at seven in the morning and ending at six in the evening, and there will be no extension, as the voting process is conducted electronically, and the programming of the ballot boxes will stop electronically at six in the evening.
According to the Electoral Commission, the total number of voters for the special ballot reached 1,570,727 voters.
The number of polling stations for the voting process of members of the security forces is 595, with 2584 polling stations.
The number of displaced voters is 120,126, and the number of polling stations for the displaced is 86, with 309 polling stations.
The special polling includes the displaced and the inmates in prisons, and the number of polling stations for the prison population is 6 polling stations.