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Iran-Iraq: Blank Iraqi ballots seized on truck from Iran |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
 Agence France Presse, BAGHDAD - Hundreds of thousands of blank ballots
like those to be used in this week's Iraqi elections have been found on
a tanker truck which entered the country from neighbouring Iran,
security officials said Tuesday.
"A truck with Iranian number plates was intercepted Tuesday night in
the locality of Badra, Wasset province, southeast of Baghdad," an
official said.
Another security source confirmed the discovery and said authorities
were looking for three other suspect trucks in areas east of Baghdad
near the Iranian border.
"The blank ballots were probably destined to stuff the ballot boxes" in Thursday's general election, a security official said.
The ballot papers were not printed by the Iraqi Electoral Commission
which is the only body authorised to supply voting materials.
Iraqis go to the polls Thursday for the third time this year to elect a
275-member Council of Representatives that will form the basis of the
first permanent post-Saddam Hussein government.
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