Figures for the first three days of registration, which began in London, Manchester, northern England, and Glasgow, in Scotland, last Monday, show 5,869 people completed accreditation to take part in the poll. Voters in Iraq and in 36 cities across Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia will decide on members of a transitional national assembly, which will create a constitution and appoint a government.
Stuart Poucher, head of the "Out-of-Country Voting" (OCV) programme in the UK, said in a statement It has been an enormous challenge to set up a registration and voting programme in the UK in what has been a relatively short period of time".
