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Judges limit Iraq vote recount in new twist

Judges appointed by Iraq's top court said Sunday (June 24th) they would limit a manual recount of votes in a May parliamentary poll to districts where results were contested, AFP reported.

The recount, demanded by the supreme court, "concerns only polling centres where candidates filed complaints to the High Electoral Commission, or in cases of official reports of suspected fraud in Iraq or abroad", the judges' spokesman, Laith Hamza, said in a statement.

The court ordered a recount on June 21st, in line with a decision adopted by parliament in response to allegations of irregularities.

Top judge Medhat al-Mahmud said at the time that all 11 million ballots cast, including those of voters living abroad, displaced persons and security forces, would have to be recounted.

The timing of the recount will be set in the presence of representatives of the UN, political entities and of the candidates affected, the judges said.

A recount of all votes would have taken weeks, going beyond the June 30th expiry date of the mandate of the incumbent parliament.

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