Inside every polling center there will be one employee from the IECI and representatives from the registered lists.

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Each party or list has the right to send an observer to each polling center, IECI officials said.

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"We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections, " said IECI spokesman Fareed Ayar, explaining that members of the media would be issued a special badge so they could move freely between polling stations.

CNN: January 30 Iraqi elections facts