Afghan election officials prepare probe
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Election officials are preparing to investigate complaints of fraud and irregularities in Afghanistan's polls, which passed off peacefully with millions of men and women turning out despite the threat of violence.
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Afghan officials delayed counting ballots in a historic presidential election on Monday to deal with complaints of fraud, but several of the candidates appeared to be pulling back from an initial decision to boycott the vote.
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Hamid Karzai was closing in Sunday on a majority of the votes in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election, leaving only an investigation of alleged irregularities between the U.S.-backed incumbent and a five-year mandate.
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Afghanistan&#39;s electoral commission gave the go-ahead for counting to begin today in the disputed presidential election after charges of fraudulent multiple voting forced a delay.
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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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Vote counting in Afghanistan's  presidential poll will not start on Monday because authorities  are waiting for advice on what to do about suspected illegal  votes, an official of the Joint Election Management Body said.
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Investigators have clear evidence of ballot box stuffing in Afghanistan's landmark presidential election but not on a scale that would overturn interim leader Hamid Karzai's victory, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Millions of Afghans are set to go to the polls Saturday in the country&#39;s first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the troubled presidential election in Afghanistan amid signs an opposition boycott was wavering after at least two candidates agreed to accept the ruling of an independent panel's inquiry.    Election organizers hope their decision, announced late Sunday, to establish a panel of about three foreign election experts to investigate the balloting will end the boycott, which many fear could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
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The head of the Afghan-UN electoral commission has kicked off vote counting in Kabul. The official cut the seal of a ballot box to start the tallying process in the capital of Afghanistan.
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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President Hamid Karzai is among four candidates who submitted complaints about Afghanistan's disputed elections ahead of the start of counting, now expected on Thursday, officials said.
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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 - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    In the second deadly incident surrounding the election, five people - including at least one election worker - were killed by an explosion as they drove near the Pakistan border, the joint U.N.-Afghan electoral commission said...
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A panel was investigating complaints of Afghan election irregularities on Thursday, further delaying the start of counting in a historic poll overshadowed by concerns over multiple voting.
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Despite the recent success of Afghanistan's presidential election, next year's local and parliamentary elections will be "more susceptible to fraud and intimidation," a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.