Turnout among registered voters reached 88 percent in Salahuddin Province, the birthplace of the deposed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and 58 percent in Nineveh, a Sunni-majority province that has been torn by violence, according to statistics released by the Independent Election Commission of Iraq. Turnout in the January elections was about 29 and 17 percent in Salahuddin and Nineveh, respectively.
The turnout in Salahuddin Province for the constitutional referendum was the second-highest in the country, trailing only Kurdish-dominated Erbil.
In Anbar Province, the other big Sunni region, the turnout for the referendum reached 30 percent on Saturday, according to Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a spokesman for the American military here. If that estimate proves to be true, it would represent a 15-fold increase over the January parliamentary elections, when only about 2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.
So what the The Today Show lead with this morning...yep, crazy mom throws kids into San Francisco Bay. And oh, by the way, it's our (society's) fault - at least according to the SF District Attorney.
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