Mixing of votes begins in Afghanistan
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Mixing of the votes cast for the first-Afghan presidential elections began in parts of the country this morning, a spokesman of the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Thursday evening.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, but the Taliban -- ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion -- vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Vote counting started yesterday in Afghanistan's landmark election, widely expected to install US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai as the war-ravaged country's first popularly chosen president.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai took an early lead as vote counting began in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, after allegations of ballot-box stuffing, voter
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Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential vote puts this nation of mud-brick houses and tribal fiefdoms on the edge of an improbable experiment with democracy.
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On Saturday, Afghans will vote for the first time in a presidential election that could advance the cause of democracy, or just as easily provoke widespread disillusionment.
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Preliminary vote totals in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election appear to give transitional leader Hamid Karzai a numeric lock on the victory.
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Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the disputed presidential election in Afghanistan amid signs an opposition boycott was wavering after at least two candidates agreed to accept the ruling of an
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With a threatened boycott its historic  presidential election firmly relegated to the background,  Afghanistan took first steps on Tuesday to begin counting  votes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election got underway Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.    Tallying was delayed slightly in the capital, but it began in many of the other seven counting centers across the country on Thursday morning, said Farooq Wardak, a senior election official...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.    The tallying began in many of the eight counting centers across the country, but was delayed in the capital, said Farooq Wardak, a senior election official...
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The mere fact of tomorrow&#39;s presidential elections in Afghanistan is cause for (subdued) celebration. Afghans are headed to the polls in the country&#39;s first-ever &quot;democratic&quot; election, and early indications
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election began on Thursday, five days after polls closed, reports The Associated Press.
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, while the Taliban, ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion, vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy, and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence.    After 25 years of near-constant war, voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time as more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...