Iraq's first election since Islamic State

A female security member casts her vote at a polling station two days before polls open to the public in a parliamentary election in Baghdad.

Iraqi security members arrive to cast their vote in Baghdad.

A female security member shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in Najaf.

An Iraqi security member shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote in Baghdad.

An Iraqi electoral commission official runs President Fouad Masoum and political leaders through a simulation of the voting process, ahead of the parliamentary election, in Baghdad.

Supporters of the Al Sairun Party, which is backed by the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, hold a poster of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, while attending a campaign rally in Baghdad.

Vehicles drive under campaign posters in Erbil.

Employees of Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission inspect voting materials at a warehouse in Basra. Picture taken May 3.