The beginning of the election results deadlock

Some inter­est­ing devel­op­ment hap­pened today. Out of the sud­den, Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya started to talk about a wide range forgery dur­ing the count process. Using strong words, Al-Iraqiya threat­ened not to rec­og­nize the results only if the Com­mis­sion pub­lishes the results of the man­ual counts of all the provinces.

Timed with few hints from the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Euro­pean Union of a pos­si­bil­ity that Iran stands behind the delay results in an attempt to change the results for the ben­e­fit of cer­tain parties.

Head of IHEC admit­ted on Al-Fayhaa TV that the com­mis­sion dis­cov­ered 400 forged bal­lot boxes.

Iraqi National Coali­tion, who suf­fered a crush­ing defeat for the sec­ond time within a year after los­ing in the provin­cial elec­tions in favor of the “State of Law” Coali­tion led by Al-Maliki. In an unprece­dented press con­fer­ence held by Ahmad Cha­l­abi, the INA coali­tion announced that under a care­ful cal­cu­la­tions of the results counted in 11 provinces (INA’s results, image above), by about 45,000 observers asso­ci­ated with INA coali­tion, the results showed that INA comes sec­ond behind the “State of Law” with 100,000 votes difference.

The INA results, which seemed a sur­prise to all politi­cians, observers and even for both “State of Law” and “Iraqiya” coali­tions, seemed to be from the the tone used by INA lead­ers are beyond dis­pute. In an attempt to block the road on other results warn­ing that a fraud will not be accepted by their INA’s members.

At the same time, the sus­pi­cious silence of the Elec­toral Com­mis­sion is rais­ing doubts about the the real causes of the delay to announce the results. All signs indi­cate that the blocs and coali­tions will not accept less than their own recorded results and not accord­ing the Elec­toral Com­mis­sion which is now accused of fail­ure by every­one, unless it comes with results that sat­isfy every­one, which is appar­ently impossible.

While IHEC said that the delay is tech­ni­cal fault, throw­ing the blames on the server, Al-Sharqiya TV reported that an influ­en­tial politi­cian tried to change all the results data and put his coali­tion in the front with the coop­er­a­tion of three IHEC employ­ees. Accord­ing to the TV the forgery attempt is dis­cov­ered and the cause of the delay is to reen­ter the old Data back to the server.

AL-Iraqiya, issued a com­plaint ask­ing why INA’s Ahmad Al-Chalabi, “SoL” Haidir Al-Ibadi, and “Sadrists” Baha’a Al-Araji were in IHEC, and in the com­puter room? But the most funny announce­ment is released by Al-Chalabi say­ing that there is a bug in the IHEC soft­ware, ask­ing IHEC to release the source code of the soft­ware used to enter and count the votes.