Fraud May Void a Quarter of Afghan Votes, Officials Say

Source: The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — Although the announcement of the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections planned for Sunday were postponed, interviews with Afghan and western officials indicate that fraud was pervasive and that nearly 25 percent of the votes will be thrown out.

The fraud, which included ballot-box stuffing, citizens forced to cast their votes at gunpoint, corrupt election officials and security forces complicit with corrupt candidates, is expected to mean that 800,000 to a million votes will be nullified, according to two western officials who are following the election closely. The Afghan Independent Election Commission, which oversees the election, has refused to disclose the number of votes that could be thrown out but said in a statement that it had decided to nullify wholly or partially the votes cast at 430 polling centers and that votes at another 830 sites were being audited, suggesting substantial problems.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/world/asia/18kabul.html

but gosh! wouldn't it be nice to be the person who gets to "nullify" a million votes? esp ones you don't like? "nah. i don't abdul's vote should count. he's shifty, after all." etc.

this is what we're paying $6Billion/week to "achieve," btw. and "our" democrats? totally "unable" to end the war. because... well... they just can't. that's why. but vote for them anyway or the world will end!!!

"fraud and the military industrial complex has cheated the American taxpayer out of a Trillion Dollars while putting Afganistan out there as the central hub in the war on terror"

Wow, that's a long headline. The average American citizen would have quit reading at "military industrial complex"

jeeeezzzzzuzzzzzonaskateboard, we are getting used.

Wolf Blitzer and John King would just go ahead and call the winner.Then the rest of MSM would follow suit. ie Alvin Greene