Iraqis congratulate each other after voting in central Baghdad. Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images
In the run-up to the Iraq conflict, Salam Pax attracted a global following with his web diary from Baghdad. This is the last in a series of blog posts he has written for Guardian Unlimited as Iraqis go the polls for the third time in 11 months.
I've been wondering for the last couple of days why the Iraqi Electoral Commission has been plastering the streets of Baghdad with rows over rows of sample ballot sheets. I found out today and wished I had actually looked at those samples.
Take a copy of your new spiffy Guardian. Open it. That's how big the ballot sheet is. The big mama of ballot sheets - and if you had no idea where the party you want to vote for is on it, you're going to spend quite some time trying to locate it. My mum decided to go for the "call a friend" option and had one of the volunteers help her do the searching.
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