Afghanistan to void some 1 million votes

Kabul: Afghan election officials plan to throw out about 1 million ballots from last month’s parliamentary election, eliminating about 23 percent of the votes due to fraud, a Western official said on Tuesday. A fraud-marred presidential election last year nearly derailed international support for President Hamid Karzai, turning this year’s poll into a test of whether the government is committed to reforms seen as key for justifying NATO funding and troops. One of the largest criticisms of the election commission last year was that it abandoned its own fraud-detection measures part way through the process, dumping obviously fraudulent ballots into the tally to help Karzai avoid a runoff with…

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Afghanistan to void some 1 million votes

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