A-WEB appears in Iraq’s Election Fraud EP. 6
A-WEB appears in Iraq’s Election Fraud
A-WEB appears in Iraq’s Election Fraud. The Iraqi Electoral Commission awarded South Korea’s Miru Systems a supply contract. (It worth approximately $83.7 million) in April 2017. The contract totaled 59,800 units. Once again, “Miru Systems” was able to intervene in the Election Fraud through South Korea’s A-WEB.
The e-voting process is as follows. First, the voter’s fingerprints are registered on the card. Next, the card is used to verify the voter’s identity on voting day. Then, the filled ballot is fed directly into a scanner-type voting machine, which is connected to a centralized server and communication network.
Finally, the ballots are counted on the server.
A similar situation to the one in Congo occurred in the Iraqi elections on May 12, 2018.
Election Fraud in Iraq have led to gunfire
Gunfire erupted between the Kurdish Patriotic Union (PUK) and the Gorran Movement in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah over whether voting was fraudulent, residents and officials said on May 12, according to Reuters.
The Gorran Movement and three other Kurdish parties have also accused the PUK of election fraud.
The clashes began when the PUK announced that it had “secured all the seats in Sulaymaniyah province” in the early stages of voting on Wednesday morning, before the counting had even begun, prompting the Gorran Movement and three other parties to accuse it of “rigging the vote.
Iraqi parliamentary elections to be counted by hand, not electronically
In the end, the 2018 Iraqi general elections were also marred by allegations of fraud.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Iraqi Vice President Iyad Allawi, the Kurdistan Alliance, and six political parties in the Kurdish region have all spoken out in favor of hand-counting rather than electronic voting.
In early June 2018, Adel Nuri, Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said he had evidence of manipulation and fraud in the Iraqi general election and would take legal action against those involved in manipulating the vote count.
On May 30, 2018, the Iraqi High Electoral Commission (IHEC) invalidated the results of 1021 polling stations out of a total of 56,000 polling stations due to suspected fraud.
It also invalidated expatriate voting, where identification was uncertain, and residential voting in refugee camps in four governorates(Nineveh, Anbar, Diyala, and Salahuddin).
There was a fire in the ballot storage warehouse
[Fig. 1] Smoke rises from a storage site in Baghdad. a housing ballot boxes from Iraq’s May parliamentary election. Iraq June 10, 2018. (Source from REUTERS)
A warehouse containing ballot boxes for the Iraqi general election. That has been decided to be recounted, caught fire on June 10, 2018.
However, The fire destroyed one of four ballot-box storage warehouses in the capital, Baghdad.
Voting machine fraud is a real thing
Eventually, the Iraqi government began verifying the results of the Korean-made electronic voting machines with hand-counted ballots. It allowed that at least 10 of the 39 elected members of parliament in three provinces – Kirkuk, Anbar, and Salahuddin – to be re-elected.
