KurdistanObserver.com

Nashville "Little Kurdistan" To Again Be Site For Iraqi Voting

Dec 10, 2005

Nashville will be one of seven U.S. sites for next week's Iraqi parliamentary election, officials announced today.

The others are Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, according to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.

Both registration and voting will be held over three days, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, at 418 Harding Industrial Drive in south Nashville. The election is to seat 275 positions on Iraq's Council of Representatives, which will convene by Dec. 31 and serve four years.

In a January election held to choose Iraq’s Transitional National Assembly, 3,744 Iraqis voted in Nashville, officials said after that election. Next week, voters are again expected to converge here from across the Southeast. The council replaces the national assembly.

Nashville is sometimes referred to as "Little Kurdistan" for its sizable Kurdish population of about 8,000 people.