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Posted on Nov 21, 2010
AP / Musadeq Sadeq

Ahmad Zia Rafat, spokesman for the Election Complaints Commission, fields questions at a news conference in Kabul on Sunday.

Afghanistan’s Election Complaints Commission has disqualified 19 candidates—including seven current members of parliament—for alleged fraud in September’s voting. So far the commission has tossed out 1.3 million votes, nearly a quarter of the total cast. —JCL

The BBC:

Afghanistan’s election watchdog has disqualified 19 candidates who stood in the September poll for alleged fraud.

Seven of them are current members of the 249-seat parliament.

The disqualifications were announced after the UN-backed Election Complaints Commission found most of their votes were fraudulent.

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By PatrickHenry, November 21, 2010 at 7:41 pm Link to this comment

I wish we had an election complaints commissions and paper ballots.

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By gerard, November 21, 2010 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment

Sounds like these folks really want “democracy” and appreciate having it laid on them by an ugly combination of violence and graft sent to them from a wealthy, ignorant. aggressive uncle on the other side of the world who has nothing better to do.

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