IHEC in the process of printing more than one million biometric cards

 Baghdad - INA

The Independent High Electoral Commission announced today, Friday, that it is in the process of printing more than one million new biometric cards. 
Commission spokeswoman Jumana Al-Ghalai said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The number of new voters from the three births from 2001 to 2003 is more than two million, one million of whom have printed their electoral cards, while the cards for the remaining have not been printed," pointing out that " Newborns who did not participate in the previous elections are among the citizens who updated their biometric data, as well as the displaced.

They added that "the commission sent to the Spanish company Andra nearly 1.3 million personal data of voters for the purpose of printing new cards."

The Prime Minister’s Adviser for Elections Affairs, Abdul-Hussein Al-Hindawi, announced, earlier, the success of the Independent High Electoral Commission in updating the biometric electoral card for about one million voters born in the years 2001, 2002 and 2003, 
and Al-Kadhimi’s advisor called on the commission to take all urgent and exceptional measures necessary to complete the acquisition of nearly 1.5 million voters Others within the same births renewed their electoral card, stressing that "all the owners of these births are constitutionally eligible to participate in the upcoming elections, but they do not yet possess any kind of electoral cards, including short-term ones, which threatens to deprive them."