Actually, my local ABC affiliate yesterday reported approximately 50% turnout.

But it doesn't matter what they are "reporting" because none of it is accurate, they are all pulled out of someone's ass numbers, because they are counting ballots by hand. It should be about a week before the numbers are known (if they do it right). So the percentage numbers being bandied about are all bullshit. Nonsensical. Completely meaningless and irrelevant.

Except that when it is repeated often enough by the media echo chamber, that is what everyone will believe to be true, regardless of what the actual number turns out to be.

Journalists and news executives should be shot for doing this, but it doesn't seem to matter anymore.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how many people did or didn't vote in Iraq anyway, because none of the people who are elected will be allowed to run the country. That is the job of the Anglo American occupation forces, and will remain so for the forseeable future. No matter what.