KABUL (AP) - Five months before parliamentary elections in Afghanistan , donor nations are worried about another messy vote and some international officials are even discussing whether the polls should be delayed.
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By Jonathon Burch
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan aims to hold a vote for the lower house of parliament by late May although fraud, security and funding could all be problems, he said.
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By TODD PITMAN and HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press Writers
KABUL – France's foreign minister urged Afghanistan's political rivals Sunday to accept the findings of a fraud investigation that could force a runoff vote in the country's disputed presidential election.
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By Golnar Motevalli
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan plunged into a bout of intense diplomacy on Saturday as election officials were expected to announce whether President Hamid Karzai must face a run-off following a disputed presidential election.
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By Julius Cavendish, The Christian Science Monitor
Kabul, Afghanistan - Before their country's fraud-riddled election in August, some Afghans complained it was the international community that would decide the result. With the United Nations having fired a top diplomat for urging a tougher stand against vote-rigging, a move made public Wednesday, they say they now have proof.
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KABUL (AFP) – More than 3,000 ballot boxes containing votes suspected of having been cast fraudulently in Afghanistan's presidential election have arrived in the capital Kabul for audit, officials said Saturday.
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By Maria Golovnina
KABUL (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed fraud watchdog investigating last month's presidential election in Afghanistan began invalidating votes on Thursday in a process that could keep the country locked in political uncertainty for months.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department is saying it could take months to sort out the many allegations of vote fraud in the Aug. 20 Afghan presidential election.
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By HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press Writer
KABUL – A U.N.-backed commission Tuesday ordered a recount of tainted ballots from the Afghan presidential vote, saying it had "convincing evidence of fraud," even as President Hamid Karzai for the first time surpassed the threshold needed to avoid a run-off and win re-election.
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By HEIDI VOGT and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writers
KABUL – Major fraud complaints in the Afghan presidential election surged Sunday to nearly 700, raising concern that the volume of cases that must be investigated will delay announcement of a winner and formation of a new government.
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by Emmanuel Duparcq
PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AFP) – Aminullah Fazly, an Afghan official who ran elections in Logar province, has spent three months barricaded in his office. He doesn't want to leave -- the Taliban want to kill him.
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By JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writers
KABUL – President Hamid Karzai and his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, were running virtually even Tuesday in the first fragmented returns from last week's Afghan election, raising the possibility of a runoff that could drag the process out for months.
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by Bronwen Roberts
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan's polls were hailed abroad as a vote for democracy, but others were more guarded, highlighting flaws in a process paid for by Western countries keen to show progress from a bloody battlefield.
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By Paul Tait and Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) – The main challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in last week's elections said on Sunday he had evidence the ballot had been widely rigged.
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By HEIDI VOGT and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writers
KABUL – Charges of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election are extensive enough that they could sway the final result, and the number is likely to grow, the commission investigating complaints said Sunday.
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