Actually, there is historical evidence that during the Ottoman period a primitive technique of poll taking was developed and used in certain "Sancak"s, including in the region what we nowaday call Iraq.
Doug Henwood wrote:
He attributed their enthusiasm to the fact that no one had
asked their opinion on anything of significance in decades, maybe ever.
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