Frustration Grows In Iraq At Slow Pace Of Vote Tally -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — At a vote-counting center in eastern Baghdad, a dozen men representing various political parties sat on a stage in a school gymnasium on Sunday, monitoring the counting of ballots.
The process was painstaking. The ballots, after being sealed at local polling stations, arrived at the center in large plastic containers. Before any votes were counted, the names on each ballot were checked against a computer database. Once the counting began, election officials recorded the results on four separate forms. Redundancy was built into every procedure.
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