The first analysis from alternatieve media, perhaps not completely objective 
but hell who is these days?
Something interesting after all the american “sunshine & moonlight stories” 
Registration for ex-patriate Iraqis to vote in the Iraq elections began on Monday in fourteen countries - Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Jordan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, and runs until January 23. However, according to a renowned expert on international law, Sabah Al Mukhtar, the London based President of the League of Arab Lawyers, the election is not alone fatally flawed, it is illegal.
‘Under the Vienna Convention, an occupying force has no right to change composition of occupied territories socially, culturally, educationally or politically. This election was based on the laws laid down by former ‘Viceroy’ American Paul Bremer and is entirely unconstitutional. Bremer personally appointed the overseers for the election’, says Al Mukhtar, thus, far from ‘free and fair’ and heralding Iraqi ‘democracy’ they are entirely engineered by Bush’s man.
Further says Al Mukhtar no one knows who has drawn up the electoral lists and on what they are based. ‘I am an Iraqi and entitled to vote, but no one has contacted me.’ As a prominent and internationally well known Iraqi he can hardly have been overlooked one wonders how many other Iraqis who are hardly likely to have voted for puppet ‘Prime Minister’ Allawi and his gang have been similarly ‘overlooked’. Further, allegation of intimidation of Iraqi ex-patriates abroad seems to be borne out by the fact that of an estimated seventy thousand Iraqis living in the north of England, just three hundred and fifty have so far registered to vote, according the Chair of the Manchester based Iraq Solidarity Campaign Hussein Al Alak. A strange reluctance in some cities to hold the elections in public building also appears to have crept in. Manchester Town Hall declined as a venue on the basis that there were too many weddings being held there on polling day. When the wily Al Alak checked, there was, in fact just one booked. 371 Oldham Road has now been designated in an area entirely dominated by the BNP. In Glasgow polling is inexplicably listed at two private houses, 71 Holland Street and 94 Elmbank Street.
more to be found on: Iraqi Elections: Farce of the Century