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Little Violence Reported During Iraq's Constitutional Referendum
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Despite insurgent threats to disrupt referendum, heavy security kept
violence to a minimum Polling centers in Iraq have closed after a
remarkably violence-free day, which allowed millions to turn out to
vote in a referendum for the country's new draft constitution.







Iraqis wait in long queues to vote in referendum in Mosul, Saturday
Crowds of Iraqis gathered at polling sites long before they opened at
7:00 a.m., Saturday.

Within three hours of polls opening, more than one-fourth of the
nearly three million registered voters in Baghdad had cast ballots in
1,200 polling centers.

An Iraqi policeman, providing security at a polling center in the
mostly-Sunni area of Ghazaliyah, says the voting process proceeded
better than anyone had expected.







Iraqi family allows their kids to drop their ballots into a box in
Basra, SaturdayDespite insurgent threats to disrupt the referendum,
heavy security kept violence to a minimum on Saturday. A handful of
polling centers came under small arms fire in and around Baghdad,
wounding several people. There were no reported car bombings or
suicide attacks.


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