The Washington Post is reporting the scheduled January elections in Iraq could be in jeopardy because of a shortage of election experts from the United Nations. The UN currently has about 35 officials in Iraq and only four or five are election experts. Originally the UN’s top election expert estimated 270 UN advisers would be needed to oversee credible elections. In Afghanistan, the UN had over 250 election experts in the lead-up to last week’s vote there. The United Nations has said it can’t send more workers in until the security situation improves. The US had planned to mobilize troops from Georgia and Fiji to protect UN workers but the force hasn’t been formed yet.