"With seven weeks to go before landmark polls, Iraq's electoral body is stepping up a campaign to inform voters of their rights, but widespread ignorance remains among the electorate, interviews show. Via a multi-million-dollar campaign on television and radio, newspapers, billboards, posters and seminars, the Independent Electoral Commission is trying to reach out to Iraq's estimated 14 million potential voters, some 55 percent of the population. It wants to inform them about how the electoral process will work and generate enthusiasm for an event many fear could be severely disrupted by insurgent attacks or the threat of them. The elections, scheduled for Jan. 30, will be Iraq's first fully democratic polls in decades -- the last proper vote before Saddam Hussein came to power was in the late 1950s. The commission, formed with the help of the United Nations in May, is responsible for overseeing the elections, three of which take place on the same day -- for a national assembly, a Kurdish regional government and provincial councils. ... The key institution to be elected is the 275-seat national assembly, which will oversee the formation of a new government and appoint a commission to write a permanent constitution. Yet asked what Iraqis would vote for on Jan. 30, Maithem Modher, a 24-year-old computer company employee, was unclear. "We will vote to choose a president," he said. "If any person gets a majority, he will win the presidency." Others were not sure when the election would take place. "On Jan. 15 we will elect a number of members and they will elect a constitution and a president," said Mortadha Hussein, 34, a shopkeeper. "I don't know how many members will be elected ... I only know that there are more then 200 political parties," he said. "I would be lying if I said I knew the parties or candidates."