From the AP:
Iraq's Sunni Arab majority has been counting on those rules to defeat the charter at the polls. There are four provinces where Sunni Arabs could conceivably make the two-thirds majority "no" vote.
But instead, parliament, which has only 16 Sunni members, approved an interpretation stating that two-thirds of registered voters - rather than two-thirds of all those who cast ballots - must reject the constitution for the rules to apply.
Remember, only 58% of registered voters showed up at the polls for the election last January. Why even bother risking lives by sending people to polling places? The constitution has already passed.
Of about 8.56 million votes cast in the election, the UIA received 4.08 million, the combined Kurdish parties garnered 2.17 million and the Iraqi list of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi got 1.17 million.
CNN calculates that those numbers would give the UIA about 130 seats on Iraq's 275-seat National Assembly, the Kurds about 70 seats, and the Iraqi list about 40 seats.
Some 58 percent of Iraq's registered voters turned out for the elections, despite violence that killed more than 40 people.
Voter turnout by province from January:
Al-Anbar (2%)
Al-Basrah (?)
Al-Muthanna (61%)
Al-Qadisiyah (69%)
An-Najaf (73%)
Arbil (?)
As-Sulaymaniyah (80%)
At-Ta'mim (?)
Babil (71%)
Baghdad (48%)
Dohuk (89%)
Dhi Qar (67%)
Diyala (34%)
Karbala' (73%)
Maysan (59%)
Ninevah (17%)
Salah ad-Din (29%)
Wasit (66%)
Note: Data not available for Al-Basrah, Arbil, and At-Ta'mim
The four provinces with the highest Sunni population are Al-Anbar, Ninevah, Salah ad-Din, and Baghdad.