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Iraqi women display their ink-stained fingers after voting in the central Shiite holy city of Najaf during the country's general elections on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (HAIDER HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529366334 )

An Iraqi elderly man shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ( APTOPIX Mideast Iraq Elections )

An Iraqi woman casts her vote in Iraq's parliamentary election (ballot-L) and in a postponed Kurdish regional election (ballot-R) in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on April 30, 2014. Iraqis defied a rash of attacks that killed 14 people and voted in the first general election since US troops withdrew, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki proclaiming "certain" victory. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529371841 )

An Iraqi elderly woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ( Mideast Iraq Elections )

An elderly Iraqi man shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote at a polling center in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani) ( Mideast Iraq Elections )

An Iraqi woman in a wheelchair displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the central Shiite holy city of Najaf during the country's general elections on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (HAIDER HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529366777 )

An elderly couple show their ink-stained fingers after casting their ballot at a polling centre in upscale Mansour Sunni district of Baghdad as Iraqis vote in the country's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew at on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (KHALIL AL-MURSHIDI/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529360490 )

A man and his wife show their inked fingers after casting their votes for parliamentary elections at a polling in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) ( Mideast Iraq Elections )

An Iraqi woman carrying her child votes at a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City district during the country's general elections on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529366151 )

An Iraqi woman casts her vote at a polling centre in upscale Mansour Sunni district of Baghdad on April 30, 2014 in the country's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks re-election. (KHALIL AL-MURSHIDI/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529361853 )

An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ( Mideast Iraq )

An elderly Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ( Mideast Iraq Elections )

Iraqi's show their inked fingers after casting their votes for parliamentary elections at a polling in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ( Mideast Iraq )

Governor of Kirkuk Najm al-Din Omar Karim (R) and his wife show their ink-stained fingers after casting their votes in Iraq's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew at the Khabat polling station north of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529360038 )

Former Iraqi prime minster Ibrihim al-Jaafari shows his ink-stained finger as he casts his vote in Iraq's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew at a polling station in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529360736 )

An Iraqi Kurdish woman displays her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a polling station in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on April 30, 2014. Iraqis streamed to voting centres nationwide, amid the worst bloodshed in years, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeks reelection. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529365992 )

Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections in Salah al-Din resort, Irbil, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo) ( Mideast Iraq )

An Iraqi woman prepares to cast her vote for parliamentary elections as she carries her daughter at a polling station in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. More than 22 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani) ( APTOPIX Mideast Iraq )

An elderly Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote outside a polling station in Habaniyah town, near Fallujah Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Local police reported several mortar attacks in Amiriyat al-Fallujah and Habaniyah town near Fallujah, near some voting centers that led to the injury of two persons. Iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo) ( Mideast Iraq Elections )