Kurdistan Region voting faces challenges: Fingerprint issues and device malfunctions
Shafaq News/ The voting process inthe Kurdistan Region, which began on Sunday, faced some issues, most notablythe failure to register fingerprints for some voters, particularly the elderly.
Shafaq News Agency correspondentsexplained, "Voting device malfunctions were promptly addressed throughrepairs or replacements; however, hundreds of voters remain unable to casttheir votes."
Additionally, polling devicesexperienced a problem reading the voting cards due to a malfunction in the SIMcard reader.
Voting for the sixth round of theKurdistan Parliament elections commenced on Sunday following the completion ofthe special voting for military and security forces two days earlier.
The Independent High ElectoralCommission of Iraq (IHEC) opened 1,622 polling stations at 07:00 a.m. foreligible residents across the Region, with a total of 2,683,618 eligible votersout of 2,899,578 registered voters.
The commission announced on Fridaythat 97% of voters in the special voting—comprising 215,960 members of thePeshmerga and internal security forces—had participated, confirming that theprocess ran smoothly with no significant violations reported.
A total of 1,091 candidates fromboth genders are competing for 100 seats in the Kurdistan Parliament, five ofwhich are reserved for minority groups. This number has been reduced from 11seats following a decision by the Federal Supreme Court, Iraq's highestjudicial authority.
