Validating the vote in Iraq. Need to make sure this is right

Recount Delays Iraq Final Election Results
Robert H. Reid/AP Original Article

Iraqi officials said Wednesday they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds - perhaps thousands - of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering. Postelection violence mounted, raising fears that the Jan. 30 balloting had done little to ease the country's grave security crisis.