The BBC has a feed of reporters’ logs from their guys all over Iraq. It’s not exactly inspiring, but if you’re interested in a particular region’s situation, check it out.

And contrary to John Cole’s “Daming But” Roundup, I think I found a “but” that’s positive:

But now that polling’s been underway for two or three hours, there are very big crowds starting to form at the polling station in the centre of Arbil. There’s certainly hundreds of people outside having to line up for quite a long time before they can get in.