Coincidentally surely, he has stated, as voting cards are handed out for
the April elections, that due to the situation in Anbar, distributing
cards there will be problematical if not impossible. What a fix — voters
unlikely to cast their tick in al-Maliki’s direction denied voting
access at all.
-- Felicity Arbuthnot, "Iraq Puppet Government Offers Financial Bounty to Extrajudicial Killers" (Global Research).