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Nearly a Third of Karzai’s Ballots Ruled Invalid

What is this?  Ohio?

U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third President Hamid Karzai’s votes from the country’s disputed August election. The findings set the stage for a runoff between him and his top challenger.

It was unclear, however, whether the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission would accept the findings of the fraud panel and announce a runoff. Karzai’s spokesman said it was too soon to make a judgment based on the figures released by the panel.

Posted by Owen at 1201 hrs
Foreign Affairs

1. I wonder how they were able to verify that the votes were invalid.  It sounds like the Afghans have a much more sophisticated verification system than we do in Wisconsin.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 19, 2009 at 1954 hrs
   
   
   

2. Good to see all that voting has made a difference and no one could ever change the results one way or the other.  Voting could never be tampered with.  Ever.  Maybe they should have another popularity contest, I mean election, so they can have more news stories!

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 19, 2009 at 2030 hrs
   
   
   

3. We would probably have the same results if we recounted our ballots, with Acorn’s help of coarse.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2009 at 0647 hrs
   
   
   

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