Now I'm sure you've already seen these numbers in the mainstream media, so you probably don't need to read them here.

But on the off change that news coverage in your area was... skimpy... I'll post these figures (courtesy of CentCom)

Registered voters:
Jan 30th - 14.3 million voters registered
Oct 15th - 15.6 million voters registered

Numbers of polling centers:
Jan 30th - 5,677 polling centers
Oct 15th - 5,852 polling centers, with most of the new centers going to Sunni regions.

Al Anbar polling centers:
Jan 30th - 33
Oct 15th - 171 (indications are that more than 200,000 additional people voted in Anbar)

Ninewah polling centers:
Jan 30th - 88
Oct 15th - 230 (nearly 400,000 more voted this time)

Poll worker applications:
Jan 30th - 110,000
Oct 15th - 450,000

Total poll workers:
Jan 30th - 108,000
Oct 15th - 171,000

* Early projections are that more than 60 percent voted (of registered)

Voting Rights Changes Since January:

* Iraqi Security Forces guarding polling stations outside their provinces were allowed to vote.

* U.S. held detainees that had not been convicted of a crime were allowed to vote.

ELECTION SECURITY

Total attacks in Iraq:
Jan 30th - 299 attacks
Oct 15th - 89 attacks

Total polling place attacks:
Jan 30th - 108 attacks
Oct 15th - 19 Attacks

Total number of Civilians killed:
Jan 30th - 30 Deaths (34 overall)
Oct 15th - 3 Deaths (10 overall)

Total number of suicide bombers:
Jan 30th - 7
Oct 15th - 0

Security Forces:
Jan 30th - 79,116 Ministry of Interior Forces
Oct 15th - 106,112 Ministry of Interior Forces

Jan 30th - 56, 949 Ministry of Defense Forces
Oct 15th - 93, 959 Ministry of Defense Forces

Logistics:
Jan 30th - MNF-I moved most of the materials
Oct 15th - Iraqi contractors conducted most of the movement and logistics

* Voting supplies were moved into warehouses three days earlier than in January with no shortages of supplies reported (per IECI press conference)

Posted by: Harvey at 04:57 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Great numbers. I stole them and credited them to you, but the trackback wouldn't work so here's a link to my post. http://arosebyname.blogspot.com/2005/10/statistics-101.html THANKS Harvey!

Posted by: Anna at October 25, 2005 07:45 AM (AWUMF)

2 Sorry...I was an idiot with the link!

Posted by: Anna at October 25, 2005 07:46 AM (AWUMF)

3 WOW, very interesting! I keep a link to CENTCOM on my site but haven't had time to check it out recently. This post of yours is great information, and handy info with which to counter idiot lefties who maintain that "things just get worse and worse"; all without facts, of course. Thanks for the post.

Posted by: The Redhunter at October 25, 2005 08:45 PM (TcuR4)

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