Election officials seal a ballot box during voting in Iraq's first democratic national election at a polling booth in western Sydney, Australia. Election officials seal a ballot box during voting in Iraq's first democratic national election at a polling booth in western Sydney, Australia January 30, 2005. More than 200,000 Iraqi exiles in 14 countries have registered to vote in their country's long-awaited first democratic election since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. REUTERS/Will Burgess