The Iraqi constitution could have been blocked if three provinces voted by a two thirds majority against it. In the Western Sunni provinces of Anbar and Salahuddin, a solid Sunni turnout provided a two thirds vote against the constitution. In the Sunni majority province of Ninevah, north of Baghdad, first results show the constitution failing, but only by 55% of the vote–not enough to block it.

Now Iraq’s electoral commission has delayed announcing the results of the nation’s constitutional referendum because of possible voting irregularities. In at least six provinces, the turnout to vote on the measure appears to have topped 95 percent, said Izzadin al Mohammadi, a senior commission official.

The audit announcement came amid allegations by the nation’s Sunni minority that the voting was marred by fraud.

If it’s proven that there was fraud in Ninevah or any other place it would affect the entire Iraqi political process and the credibility of democracy in Iraq,”

said Naseer al-Ani, a senior official in the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group that backed the constitution at the last minute.

It’s a fraud; it was a rigged election,

according to Fakhri al-Qaisi, an official with the Sunni political group the National Dialogue Council.

Election officials acknowledged after January’s elections that militia members in Ninevah took ballots and ballot boxes from polling centers and returned them stuffed to the brim, which has Sunnis concerned that this election may have been stolen.

No sightings of Katherine Harris, but nothing would suprise me now.