EU: 1.5m votes in Afghan election suspicious
European Union election observers say that about 1.5 million votes cast in last month’s Afghanistan elections are suspicious, CNN reports.
Of the fraudulent votes, 1.1 million were cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai, according to the EU Election Observation Mission. Another 300,000 were cast for Karzai’s main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, and 92,000 for another candidate, Ramazan Bashardost.
The 20th August election has been rife with charges of fraud. More than 200,000 votes have already been thrown out, including 29,000 votes in a swath of Afghanistan where Karzai has much support – Paktika, Ghazni and Kandahar provinces.
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