In Afghanistan today, the American chairman of the commission investigating complaints about Thursday's presidential election says some of the charges his team is reviewing are serious enough to sway the final election result.[...]
Mr. GRANT KIPPEN (Chairman, Election Complaints Commission): The allegations contained in the complaints we've received so far range from voter intimidation, violence, ballot-box tampering, interference in the polling, polling stations not opening and problems with the indelible ink.
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Mirwais Yasini, a parliamentarian, stood behind a table piled with ballot papers that he said his supporters found ditched outside Spin Boldak city in southern Kandahar province. The ballots bore the stamp of the Independent Election Commission, which is applied only after the ballots are used for voting.
"Thousands of them were burned," he said.
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An Afghan vote monitoring group said Taliban militants in Afghanistan's south cut off the fingers of two Afghan voters, carrying out a gruesome pre-election threat.
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Weeks before the vote, NPR reporters and producers were shown a dozen voter registration cards that were purchased in a local bazaar.
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The Washington, D.C.-based National Democratic Institute had observers in only 19 provinces, passing over many violent areas of the south and east.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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