Ballot-stuffing witnessed amid troubled Afghanistan vote

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Source: CS Monitor

When campaign aide Qais showed up at a polling center in the troubled province of Wardak Saturday morning, he found that guards would not allow him to enter. When he tried to peer through the windows, he found that workers had erected huge cardboard sheets to block the view.

Inside, election workers were busy stuffing ballots on behalf of a candidate named Hajji Wahedullah Kalimzai. Although only about 20 men had come to vote thus far, hundreds of ballots were being marked in favor of Mr. Kalimzai.

It was a scene repeated throughout the province. The elections in Wardak were marred by widescale fraud, violence, and an extremely low turnout, casting doubt on the legitimacy of the new class of lawmakers that will represent the province.

“There were almost no elections in Wardak,” said Ghulam Hassan, a local elder. “The votes were stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0918/Ballot-stuffing-witnessed-amid-troubled-Afghanistan-vote

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[RandomThoughts]

1. Stolen right in plain sight.

Like many reforms, peoples houses, pensions, jobs, even ideas and better thoughts.

heh, steal away, and reap your rewards.


I will be happy with the beer and travel money that will be paid, and the many good times, along with that.

The thieves can spend their time in the empty squalor of what they are creating for themselves.




Some people might want to figure out what is going to happen and correct the issues.

[sakabatou]

2. Yay democr- oh.