Electronic voting was used across Iraq for the first time in this past weekend's parliamentary election in an effort to secure the process. But parties at stations across the northeast reported that broken voting machines prevented people casting ballots before the polls closed at 6 pm. Many said this was intentional to swing the outcome. Six Kurdish parties along with the Wataniya bloc, led by Iraq’s vice-president Ayad Allawi, have demanded a re-run of the election in the Kurdistan region, parts of Ninewa and Kirkuk.
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