Iraqi elections

[ciphergoth]

This goes through my head every time I read a headline about the eight million Iraqis who just voted, or the thousands in this country who cast a proxy vote.

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

More up to date information:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html#People

When I add up these figures, I get 15136552 people age 15 and above. So a voting population of 14M sounds about right. 8M voters is about 57% of that.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

That's not bad at all, then - I thought I'd heard on the radio this morning that the 8M were 57% of registered voters, and that registrations had not been particularly high. I guess this could have been talking about particular areas. Or maybe I wasn't completely awake and conflated two different news stories.