Iraqis may have to wait weeks for election results

Iraqis may have to wait weeks to learn the winners of this weekend’s election, with guerrilla attacks and other factors expected to slow the vote tally, a foreign election adviser in said today.

In the interest of transparency, some early results will trickle out as votes are counted, but Iraq’s Independent Electoral Commission will not be able to declare winners until a painstaking count is finished, said the adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity.