Afghan Vote-Rigging Videos Emerge

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Run time: 02:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITk_rO8taw   Posted on YouTube: September 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 300   Posted on DU: September 26, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 304

 
The integrity of Afghanistan's recent parliamentary election has been plunged into fresh doubt with the emergence of amatuer videos that appear to show police officers tasked with stopping fraud allowing vote-rigging to occur.

The videos, obtained by Al Jazeera, cannot be independently verified but appear to show Afghan police involvement in electoral fraud, dealing a blow to official claims that any dishonesty that occurred was the work of independent fraudstars and was not carried out on a massive scale.

Al Jazeera English's Sue Turton, reporting from Kabul, has more.

More details in this AJ English article: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/09/201092614267602479.html

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