House of Representatives recognizes the electronic voting me

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Announced a coalition of state law, on Thursday, the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved during its meeting of 35 held today, the mechanism of electronic voting as an alternative to hands-off, while considered the adoption of the mechanism that will work as of next Saturday, “the success of the work of the parliament,” he pointed out that the new system Off the political, not technical.

The MP said the coalition of state law, Hussein al-Assadi said in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “Iraqi Council of Representatives approved at its 35-year legislative second session, today, mechanism of electronic voting as an alternative to hands-off,” noting that “Adoption of the mechanism was the result of pressure practiced by members of the Council and significantly to the leaders of the blocs. “

He said al-Asadi “Parliament will begin on Saturday, the mechanism of electronic voting experimentally by the system currently in parliament since 2005,” noting that “the system of old had been down for some reason is political, not technical through the pressure exercised by the leaders of political blocs.”

He Asadi that “the heads of parliamentary blocs decided at a meeting, yesterday, with the heads of parliamentary committees and a number of members of parliament adopting a mechanism that electronic voting through the purchase of system e-vote a new,” asserting that “the House will adopt electronic voting by the new system with the beginning of the chapter legislature after the 20 of next November. “

The Asadi that “the electronic system developed will enable members of the House to check out all the details of the legislation of laws by appearing on the screen of an electronic,” pointing out that “electronic voting will provide a great opportunity to know the number of attendees, with the decision for or against, and qualify it, while not provides manual voting skeptics. “

The Council of Representatives, said Thursday its 35-year legislative second, headed by Speaker Osama Najafi and the presence of 235 deputies, with parliamentary source that the agenda of the meeting did not include the second reading of the Law Council strategy policies and higher to be discussed the second reading him today.

The deputy from the coalition of state law Ihsan al-Awadi said, on September 25 last, that the political reasons behind the non-application of the electronic voting system in the Iraqi parliament, stressing the need to guarantee the adoption of Representatives are not subject to political pressure.

He called the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, in the April 24, to the need to investigate reasons for non-working electronic voting during parliamentary sessions, especially after that spent millions of dollars on the system so special, they returned to it, “will prevent the deals some of the leaders of political blocs imposed on members of the Parliament. “

Osman also criticized strongly, mid-April, the heads of political blocs to disable the electronic voting in the House, pointing out that the deputies have received training on how to vote but that the heads of blocs insist on manual voting for the diagnosis of Representatives orientation and violators punished.

The Iraqi Council of Representatives adopted since its first session, which began mid-March 2006 a system of hands and counting in the process of voting on laws and legislation, while not recording attendance by collecting signatures of Representatives, raising many of the problems and objections by what caused the errors and omissions intentionally or otherwise.

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