Iraqis crowd the polls
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Despite insurgent attacks, initial reports of strong turnout in Iraq's landmark vote lend air of legitimacy.
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The legitimacy of Iraqi election is likely to hinge on voter turnout by the Sunni minority.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Iraqi voters living here and flying in from around the Middle East turned out yesterday on the final day of registration for Iraq's historic election, speaking excitedly of freedom and an unwillingness to bend to boycott calls. But turnout remained low.
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Millions of Iraqis turned out to vote  Sunday, defying anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the  historic poll in blood.
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Ballot boxes have been emptied and votes are being counted at 600,000 polling stations across the country. Many are being counted in the open air, attracting large crowds of onlookers.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the  United States began registering on Monday for elections at the  end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a  poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.
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Hundreds of Iraqis streamed into polling places in five U.S. cities Friday, the first day they could vote in their homeland's election. Nearly 26,000 people have registered to vote in five U.S. metropolitan areas with heavy Iraqi populations: Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, Tenn., Los Angeles and Washington.
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Almost 30 percent of registered Iraqi exiles voted on the first day of absentee balloting in Iraq's first postwar election, organizers said on Saturday.
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Election centers have been bombed,  candidates and electoral officials threatened and even killed.  With only a week to go, intimidation is turning Iraq's landmark  polls into a new kind of secret ballot.
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The BBC's correspondents report from across the Middle East as Iraqis go to the polls to elect a transitional Iraqi assembly.
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Billboards urging Iraqis here to vote in their national elections Sunday loom over major intersections. Schools have become registration centers, their rows of tiny desks filled with Iraqis who have sought refuge here from war. Radio and television ads urge the exiles to vote.
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Attacks and explosions mount as Iraqis go to the polls in the first multi-party elections for half a century.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis, notably in  restive Sunni Arab areas, may have been denied their right to  vote on Sunday because of insufficient ballots and polling  centers, officials said.
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Iraqis living abroad are being given more time to register for the 30 January poll because of a low turnout.
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Iraqi voter registration abroad is extended due to low turnout, as extra security is announced for the election.
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UK Iraqi groups have expressed disappointment at the number of people registered for the election.