Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up [as many as 800] fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president’s re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials here.[...]
Besides creating the fake sites, Mr. Karzai’s supporters also took over approximately 800 legitimate polling centers and used them to fraudulently report tens of thousands of additional ballots for Mr. Karzai, the officials said.
The result, the officials said, is that in some provinces, the pro-Karzai ballots may exceed the people who actually voted by a factor of 10. “We are talking about orders of magnitude,” the senior Western diplomat said.
Condi would say that’s okay, because democracy has different flavors, and that’s the Afghan democracy at work.
And our sons and daughters will die protecting it.
As President Bush said in his Second Inaugural Address: “America will not impose our style of government on the unwilling.[...] We know that different societies will find forms of democracy that work for them. – Condi Rice in Cairo, June 20, 2005
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