Iraqis voted today on whether to accept the constitution, which Publius has covered extensively. Terrorism was minimal, with only three relatively unsuccessful attacks wounding two police officers and one civilian — which, out of 6,000 polling stations, is a highly ineffective 0.05% success rate. It does indeed look as though the Iraqi and coalition security forces are able to maintain the peace while locking down infrastructure; I expect that as the Iraqi forces continue to ramp up in the coming months, they’ll rapidly outpace the terrorists and develop the capacity to hold the peace without restricting Iraqis’ rights. But, then, that’s hardly a surprise: it doesn’t take much sense to see that wantonly murdering Iraqis is unlikely to be a useful recruiting strategy aimed at Iraqis.

The Adventures of Chester is live-blogging the referendum, be sure to follow Josh Manchester’s excellent coverage. And, of course, for the local scoop you already know to check out Iraq the Model.

Here’s an excerpt from Iraq the Model:

Only hours separate us from a major historic day for our nation (too many historic days for Iraq in these two years!). Tomorrow will draw a line that would mark the beginning of a new era in Iraq; a constitutional Iraq will become reality.
It????????s only a beginning since there will be more steps to go but it????????s the right beginning because it????????s a transition from temporary laws to a permanent-though amendable-constitution on which the people will assume control through their elected representatives and through their own direct votes.

It is really amazing how things have changed in Iraq; three years ago Saddam ???????won??????? 100% of the votes in a pathetic referendum that he designed in order to give legitimacy to his reign while yesterday even security detainees were allowed to express their opinion on the constitution through voting and the government and parliament are almost begging the 15 million plus voters to say ???????yes????????!
And although many signs indicate that the document is on its way to be ratified, no one can say it is until the people decide which checkbox to tic tomorrow.
Some people would say ???????Is that all you won, after more than two years of war and violence? That????????s only one basic right??????? well, that is the point; we????????ve secured one key right that can help us secure the rest.

UPDATE: This is Rob. I’ll have a post up at the end of all this. I’m busy with the walk, but Daniel has all the linkage under control! You might also want to check out the Iraq Election Wire, which has tons of links.