Leader Reports Ballot Shortage
From Associated Press
BAGHDAD —
Iraqi interim President Ghazi Ajil Yawer said Tuesday that tens of thousands of people may have been unable to vote in a historic weekend election because some polling places, including those in Sunni Muslim areas, ran out of ballots.
“Tens of thousands were unable to cast their votes because of the lack of ballots in Basra, Baghdad and Najaf,” Yawer, a Sunni, said at a news conference. Najaf is a mostly Shiite city but Basra and Baghdad have substantial Sunni populations.
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