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Submitted by ctv_en_4 on Tue, 12/13/2005 - 12:00
Patients, prisoners and soldiers on Monday cast their votes in Iraq's parliamentary elections - three days before the rest of the population.

Patients, prisoners and soldiers on Monday cast their votes in Iraq's parliamentary elections - three days before the rest of the population.

Many thousands of Iraqis are on the register to vote in hospitals, jails and barracks across the country.

A five-day public holiday began on Tuesday as security tightens ahead of Thursday's election.

In a website statement al-Qaeda in Iraq and other militant groups purportedly branded the polls a "devilish plot".

In Baghdad's Yarmuk Hospital, ballot boxes were brought to the beds of those too weak to walk so they could cast their vote using an inked finger.

Some 200,000 members of Iraq's security forces registered to vote before taking up their positions to protect polling stations later in the week.

 

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