IHEC: No fraud appeared during recounting and sorting of 25% of the polling stations

 
Baghdad-INA
 
The Independent High Electoral Commission confirmed on Sunday, the processes of recounting and sorting, which included more than 14,000 stations, representing 25% of the total stations across Iraq, show that there are no fraud or any change in the results of the elections.
 
“There has been no skepticism about the electoral process after its conclusion and no party has reported breaches, but after the initial results many objections and doubts about the electoral process have been emerged by parties affected by the results”, said Imad Jamil Mohsen, member of the media team of IHEC, in an interview on Al-Iraqiya news channel, that followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
Regarding the objections to what accompanied the process, Mohsen stated that "The failure of the devices occurred in 3,681 stations out of more than 55 thousand stations, and it happened temporarily and slightly, and the suspension was ended after re-entering the password and things returned to normal on the day of the poll."
 
He stressed, "We did not receive any complaints about the entry of ballot papers into the polling stations after six p.m., the date of the end of the electoral process, and the devices programmed to do not allow that. Also, what appeared in video clips of a car carrying boxes and a house that includes a polling station and a person stamping ballot papers was in the 2018 elections, and this matter is proven among  the complaints at IHEC, has nothing to do with the 2021 elections."
 
IHEC announced on Saturday, receiving appeals against the results, while it stipulated a single case relating only to the availability of the first plaintiffs who do not carry a recommendation for counting and sorting that was confirmed to sense a state of satisfaction with the entities’ agents, candidates and monitoring teams over the course of the ongoing process in Baghdad.
"Since the Electoral Commission began counting and sorting the votes of the stations whose results were contested, it began according to a specific timetable for the governorates, and today ended the process with 348 stations next to Karkh, all indications show that the results are identical,” said Hassan Salman, Director of the Media and Mass Communication Department at the Electoral Commission, to Al-Iraqiya News, followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
He added: "Through our daily presence in the counting room, we saw a state of satisfaction from party agents, candidates, local and international monitoring teams with the process and its results, as things began to be more convinced for those who complained about the validity of the results.”
 
He stressed that "the Commission has opened the door to submitting appeals again for the first claims that were referred to the judicial body that does not carry a recommendation for counting and sorting only, which gives the opportunity for the complainants to submit their documents.”