Iraq’s electoral commission said Monday it intended to audit "unusually high" numbers in results coming from most provinces in Saturday’s landmark referendum on the draft constitution.

The commission’s statement came after Sunni Arab lawmaker, Meshaan al-Jubouri, claimed fraud had occurred in the vote — including instances of voting in hotly contested regions Saturday by pro-constitution Shiites from other areas — repeating earlier comments made by other Sunni officials over the weekend.

Election officials examining the ballot boxes said they were particularly baffled by the presence of hundreds of thousands of "yes" votes apparently cast by Republican voters in Ohio and Florida.

Chris Allbritton at Back to Iraq 3.0 does the math:

What’s truly eyebrow-raising is that the number of constitutional "yes" votes – 326,774 – is more than the total increase in votes over January’s turnout. That suggests that not only did all of the Sunnis in Ninevah province, who largely boycotted the January elections turn out, but that they all voted for the constitution. That’s a very strange idea to me, as I’ve not met a single Sunni who voted for it here in Baghdad.