I keep hearing there are 14 million registered voters in Iraq

[Dookus]

but according to the CIA factbook on Iraq, there are only 15 million people over the age of 14! So that means close to (or more than) 100% of adults 18 and over have registered. Hrmmmm

[Kagemusha]

1. Huge numbers fed by Oil for Food program

So they probably used those rolls as the basis for elections because they dropped the census plan.

[Dookus]

2. I don't understand

can you clarify?

[LostInAnomie]

3. Does that include the thousands of ex-pats in the US...

... and the millions of fake ones * has stuffed in the ballot box.

[Dookus]

4. CNN

just said only 280,000 ex-pats registered to vote.

[LostInAnomie]

5. The numbers are probably artificially inflated to spot Allawi a few...

... million.