Ahmed Wali Karzai takes 100% of votes in opposition stronghold

[bemildred]

Source: Times Online (UK)

In the southern Afghan district of Shorabak, the tribesmen gathered shortly before last month’s presidential election to discuss which candidate they would back. After a debate they chose to endorse Abdullah Abdullah, President Hamid Karzai’s leading opponent.

The tribal leaders prepared to deliver a landslide for Abdullah – but it never happened. They claim Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s brother and leader of the Kandahar provincial council, detained the local governor and closed all the district’s 46 polling sites on election day.

The ballot boxes were taken back to the district headquarters where, tribal leaders allege, they were stuffed with ballots by local policemen. A total of 23,900 ballots were finally sent off to Kabul, the capital – every one of them a vote for Karzai.

The alleged fraud, which Ahmed Wali Karzai denies, was the most blatant example among hundreds of incidents that have threatened to make a mockery of the election.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6823431.ece

[ShortnFiery]

1. er ... O K.

:eyes:

[hobbit709]

2. Took lessons from Florida and Ohio did they?

[jmowreader]

3. I know how they did this

They put a casket next to a ballot box, and hung a sign on the ballot box: "Put a vote for Ahmed Wali Karzai in this box or we'll put you in the other one."

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. So let me get this straight....

A corrupt pResident, with ties to the CIA and the oil industry, "won" an election with the help of his equally corrupt brother, who is the governor of a southern province?

Why does this sound so familiar?

[Soylent Brice]

11. 2000 all over again. thank gawd we brought democracy to these

people, huh.

:sarcasm:

[Democracyinkind]

5. Our man in Kabul ... classic ... nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Ngo Dinh Diem once won the RVN election with 98% of the vote

In some districts, double the population voted.

Good times.

[Democracyinkind]

10. " Sorry, we can't help you - it's 4 o clock in the morning and no one is awake in Washington.....

..can you hold out a few hours? "

Ngo was a classic too. Can you imagine how he felt when he called the company and realized that nobody gives a shit about him anymore?

Graham Greene would love to write about this stuff if he were still here!

[dipsydoodle]

6. BBC - New Afghan 'poll frauds' emerge

Further evidence has come to light of widespread fraud during the recent Afghan presidential election.

One tribal elder has admitted to the BBC that he tampered with hundreds of ballots in favour of incumbent President Hamid Karzai.

More than 600 serious complaints are being investigated, but the deadline for new complaints has now passed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8239500.stm

[elocs]

7. These countries need to learn to steal elections more subtly and believably. n/t

[MellonCollie]

21. I think this kind of thing is part of the fun

It's a big "F**K YOU!" from the people rigging elections to the average Joe/Joanne in the street.

[dhpgetsit]

9. We are spreading democracy around the globe!

:puke:

[madrchsod]

12. no one has won and no one knows if anyone will

it takes 50%+i vote to win. never candidate has 50+1.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iifvOMPK47eDTo9ASrW4cUD3vv1A

[David__77]

13. So Karzai probably is losing the first round.

Or certainly he is not ahead in terms of votes actually cast.

[Vidar]

14. I'm so pleased we can cheat as well in Afghanistan as we do in the US.

[Odin2005]

15. Must have gotten advice from the Ohio GOP.

:puke:

Maybe we should, um, take out Karzi and re-do the elections RIGHT this time?

[tomm2thumbs]

16. Florida 2000

[bvar22]

17. As long as....

...there is a single US Tank on the streets of Kabul, there won't be any such thing as a free and fair election.

The same goes for Baghdad and Iraq.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

18. The only thing missing so far is another Brooks Brothers intervention.

Maybe Faux can send Bush's cousin to determine the true winner again.

[dotymed]

19. BASIC CIA OPERATION

This is the way that the CIA has, for years, taken over
"Democratic" countries. Poppy Bush showed
"Junior" a variation (more sophisticated) of this
procedure, so he could take over America. We knew what was
happening, we didn't do a thing to stop it (either time).
Truly, ((with 17% unemployment) there is nothing to stop us
from using tactics from the "civil rights era", and
taking to the streets (at least every weekend, look at the
"tea baggers") until we get some real governmental
change. Of course, with ALL of the MSM working non-stop to
prevent this, it will take some determination. Hell, Americans
have no idea, by design, of what is happening in their own
country. I have asked most of my friends if they have heard of
Sibel Edmonds and her testimony. None of them have. Go to
"bradblog.com" and watch her testimony (given last
month) and then ask yourself why this is not
"front-page" news all over our country. It is (was)
in most other countries. If I didn't have children and family
here (USA) I would have been gone long ago. I can't fight
"the system" by myself. It is self-destructing
though. I hope my children's lives are not destroyed because
of it.

[bobshin]

20. Forced democracy in action.

[Elmore Furth]

22. Karzai is dirty

[JNelson6563]

23. I wondered what Rove&Co. had been up to lately.

Now I know.

Julie