"Afghan Election Staffers Fired for Fraud"

[GreenPartyVoter]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Election authorities said Sunday that they have fired about 50 employees for suspected fraud in last month's legislative polls, while human rights advocates warned that about half of the winning candidates are believed to have links to armed groups.

The latest fighting, meanwhile, left eight insurgents dead and two British warplanes damaged.

The suspected election fraud cast a shadow on Afghanistan's latest step toward democracy. About 680 ballot boxes, or 3 percent of the vote, were taken out of the counting process because of suspicions they were stuffed, said Richard Atwood, chief of operations for the joint U.N.-Afghan election commission.

But he ruled out a recount, saying the suspected fraud "does not affect the integrity of the election."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051016/D8D9977O1.html

[louis-t]

1. "does not affect the integrity of the election."

Hmmm, I seem to have heard that language before. Can't quite put my finger on it. Let's see, recent history, somewhere in the northern hemisphere..dang, can't remember!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I had that same weird sense of deja vu as well.

[MADem]

3. Did the fired employees get their severance from Diebold? nt

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Oh yes

Freedom is on the march. :sarcasm: Look what Iraq has to look forward to!