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rmp yellow Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:10 AM
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Hamid Karzai is the man! Gets 113,000 out of 38,000 votes cast, Washington Post says
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 09:22 AM by rmp yellow
Those numbers are for a Southern province.

That must be some sort of record!

From today's Washington Post:

Voter turnout data kept confidential by the United Nations' chief envoy in Kabul after Afghanistan's disputed August presidential election show that in some provinces the official vote count exceeded the estimated number of voters by 100,000 or more, providing further indication that the contest was marred by fraud.

In southern Helmand province -- where 134,804 votes were recorded, 112,873 of them for President Hamid Karzai -- the United Nations estimated that just 38,000 people voted, and possibly as few as 5,000, according to a U.N. spreadsheet obtained by The Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603816_pf.html
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:12 AM
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1. Yet we are going to increase the war to prop this guy up?
Disgusting
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:26 AM
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2. Karl Rove would be proud
Do they use purple fingers or Diebold/ESS?
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:31 AM
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3. Nothing will change. Whether we are there for
years and years or whether we leave now both countries will do what they damn well please. All that is happening now is more people are being killed, we keep giving money to them, they take it and forge an election. It is a no win situation. Are we still giving money to Pakistan? Why can't we go to Musharraf and say We want our money back. Where did you hide it? I think it is a case of "never the twain shall meet."
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:48 AM
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4. I think they were using the same guy who estimated the Glenn Beck 9/12 rally ...
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:55 AM
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5. Hand Picked by the Bush* Cabal
Learned their tactics well it would appear..
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