(4 Mar 2010) SHOTLIST
Baghdad
1. Low angle shot of cars driving through checkpoint
Baghdad
2. Sign on road
Baghdad
3. Iraqi soldiers queuing to cast their early votes in parliamentary election
4. Various of soldier searching the rest as they enter polling station
5. Army officers registering to vote
6. Various of Brigadier General at polling station with election staff preparing documents
7. Brigadier General behind booth
8. Brigadier General''s finger being dipped into inkpot
9. Brigadier General casting his vote
10. Wide of Iraqi soldiers leaving polling station after voting
Baghdad
11. Iraqi policemen arriving to vote being checked by soldiers at polling station gate
Baghdad
12. Various of police captain voting
13. Exterior of polling station
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Name not given, police captain casting early vote:
"We come here today to perform parliamentary elections for 2010. We hope that the next government pays heed to security."
15. Man being checked outside Ibn al-Haitham Hospital
16. Various of room with patients on hospital beds
Baghdad
17. Patient registering to vote
18. Close of papers
19. Patient behind booth
Baghdad
20. Close up of patient''s finger being dipped into inkpot, tilt up to patient casting his vote
Basra
21. Wide shot of doctor casting ballot
22. Various of doctor dipping her finger in ink
23. Iraqi troops heading to polling station
24. Soldier registering to vote
25. Close of documents
26. Soldier behind booth
27. Close of finger being dipped in ink
28. Soldier casting ballot
29. Doctor going behind voting booth
30. Close of document on ballot box
31. Various shots of patients casting their ballots
32. Wide of ward with ballot box
STORYLINE
Early voting began on Thursday morning in Iraq''s parliamentary election, which will elect a government that will guide the country as US forces go home and help determine whether Iraq can overcome its deep sectarian divisions.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are expected to take part in early voting, a one-day session designed for those who might not be able to get to the polls on Sunday, when the rest of the country votes.
Early voters include detainees, hospital patients, and military and security personnel who will be working on election day.
In the southern city of Basra, Iraqi police and military personnel also headed to the polling stations to cast their votes.
Hospital patients and medics were able to vote in hospital wards.
Security in Baghdad was tight on Thursday as early polling got under way, but an explosion in a pile of rubbish near a crowded Baghdad market killed seven people, police said.
The blast happened about 500 yards from a polling station that was not taking part in early voting. But there were conflicting reports about the nature of the explosion.
Around the country, hundreds of thousands of police and military have been flooding the streets to prevent attacks by insurgents who have warned they would try to disrupt the vote.
The United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq estimated that between 600-thousand and 700-thousand people could vote on Thursday.
About 19 (m) million of Iraq''s estimated 28 (m) million people are eligible to vote in the elections, which will take place in 16 countries around the world.
These are only Iraq''s second elections for a full parliamentary term since the 2003 US-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein, leading to the eventual creation of the Shiite-dominated government in power today.
As part of the tightened security measures, officials in the western province of Anbar announced a vehicle ban on Thursday morning.
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