Monitors Find Significant Fraud in Afghan Elections

[Rose Siding]

Election officials and observers said Sunday that with 80 percent of the ballots counted in Afghanistan's national and provincial elections, they had found significant incidents of fraud.

Whole districts have come under suspicion for ballot box stuffing and proxy voting, said Peter Erben, the chief of the United Nations-assisted Joint Election Management Board. He said ballot boxes from 4 percent of the 26,000 polling places - about 1,000 stations - had been set aside for investigation on suspicion of fraud and other irregularities.
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One of the worst cases has been in Paghman, a district west of Kabul, which is the stronghold of Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, a wartime faction leader and ally of President Hamid Karzai. Ballot boxes from 95 polling stations in Paghman have been set aside for further inspection and 30 to 40 of those had been cleared for counting by Sunday, officials said.
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"If compared with other, similar, postconflict elections, I think that the level of irregularities that we are currently reviewing is extremely reasonable," Mr. Erben said at a news conference.

http://nytimes.com/2005/10/03/international/asia/03afghan.html?hp&ex=1128312000&en=4893e9f8997a9431&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[UpInArms]

1. get a mighty big broom ready and lift the rug higher, boys

'cause here's another one to crowd into the arena of cover-ups.

[Benhurst]

2. Significant incidents of fraud? That's great! In a short time they

have achieved full BushAmerican style democracy. Time to bring the troops home.

[LynnTheDem]

3. OMG!!!

I am so SHOCKED I tell ya!

Not.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Move along people

Nothing to see here.

[texpatriot2004]

5. Bringing "Democracy" to others Bush style. Stolen elections for

all.

[fooj]

6. Well, I'll be damned! Really?

"We are taking irregularities very seriously," he said.

Hmmmmmmmmm...................

Peace.

[cantstandbush]

7. They catch on quick to our form of "freedom and democracy."

This part of the war on terrorism is also a hoax.

[struggle4progress]

8. kick

[darkism]

9. Wow, they call fruad "irregularities" too!

I'm so glad the Afghans have gotten their American-style democracy, complete with sham elections fraught with "irregularities."

And by "irregularities," I meant straight up fucking FRAUD.

[tom_paine]

10. Sounds like Afghani elections are closely modelled after ours

Same Bushevik Toadies doing the fraud...same predetermined outcome as in Imperial Amerika.

We ARE spreading the Bush form of government, aren't we?

[antonialee839]

11. Welcome to America