A man rides a scooter along a roundabout past electoral banners for KDP candidates running in Iraq's October 2021 elections in Kurdistan Region's Zakho province, Oct. 5, 2021. (Photo: Ismael Adnan/AFP)
A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections, October 10, 2021. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the Kurdistan Region capital, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: SAFIN HAMED/AFP)
A disabled Iraqi elderly woman is helped to cast her vote during voting in early parliamentary elections at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
An IHEC employee assists a Kurdish man in capital Erbil to cast his vote for Iraq's early parliamentary elections, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)