Iraqi Voting In Nashville

Nashville has again been chosen as one of the 7 cities in the US where voting starts tomorrow for the Iraqi parliamentary elections.

Iraqis living outside of their home country will be able to help select 45 of the 275 parliamentary seats.

Numbering near 8-thousand, Nashville has one of the largest Kurdish populations in the US. Nashville Kurdish Forum President Tahir Hussain says 37-hundred Iraqis voted in the January elections, the largest turnouts among voting sites in the US, and this time Hussain says the turnout could be even higher.

“Since the registration and the voting will take place in the same day, so we expect people coming from outside Nashville, from the south region like Houston, Houston Texas and Georgia, Atlanta Georgia, and other surrounding states to be higher than last time.”

For the interim parliamentary elections in January, Hussain says Iraqis had to come to Nashville the week before the elections to register, and then stay or come back to the city for the actual vote.

Elections in Nashville run today through Thursday at 418 Harding Industrial Road in Antioch.

For more information, visit:
http://www.iraqvote.org/