Iraqi expatriates vote in Skokie, IL

Not too far away from Marathon Pundit world headquarters, Iraqis living in the US are voting today and the next few days to choose the Iraqi government.

Oh, for those leftwing trolls visiting. This didn't happen under Saddam.

From AP:

The chance to cast his ballot in the Iraqi national election was all the encouragement Haidar Al Latif needed to drive 10 hours in a rented car from South Dakota to a polling place in suburban Chicago to vote.

"This is the first time I had the opportunity to vote," said Al Latif, 34, who works as a mason in Sioux Falls. He said a snowstorm prevented him from making the trip in January to cast a ballot for a constitutional assembly, Iraq's first free elections in decades.

Iraqi expatriates began voting Tuesday in the Chicago area and in other cities around the United States to help elect the 275-member National Assembly, which will legislate over the next four years and choose the first fully constitutional government since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's rule in 2003.