12:27 p.m. Sumaiya Khudhair Abbas, Tammuz organization, a local monitor said in a phone interview: “Polling centers officials are refusing to let our monitors enter polling centers. The monitors are carry credentials and are authorized to monitor” “We had to wait out of polling centers for three hours till nine p.m. This is worrying” said Abbas. 12:23 p.m.
Voters in Al Anbar province from Haditha, Qaem and Fallujah told McClatchy correspondents that some Iraqi army soldiers are not allowing authorized vehicles to reach to polling centers.
12:20 p.m. Iraqi army closed a polling station for about 15 minutes in order to secure voters. Citizens informed Iraqi army soldiers that they saw gunmen gathering near by a polling station in Al Zahraa neighborhood, in east Mosul. Soldiers ordered all voters to enter the center while securing the area. The center was re-opened and continue to receive voters.
12:15 p.m. Adnan Al Zurfi, governor of Najaf province, told McClatchy: “There are more than three thousand voters couldn’t find their names to vote. This is a breach of law and it is a failure of the high electoral commission to conduct its duties. We made calls trying to solve this problem but the commission did not find a solution for the problem”
12:10 p.m.
On Palestine Street in Baghdad McClatchy cars carrying McClatchy reporters stopped in a checkpoint along with an ambulance. The ambulance driver opened the back of the vehicle and it was carrying three civilian bodies killed in an explosion in Ur neighborhood and the driver said between 10 to 12civilians were killed and this is his second trip
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