Count Delay in Afghan Poll, Candidates Coming Round
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Afghan officials delayed counting ballots  on Monday after the historic presidential election to deal with  complaints of fraud, but several candidates appeared to be  pulling back from an initial decision to reject the vote.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of  victory in his country's historic presidential poll, but the  result will not be announced for a day or so until the last few  ballot boxes are counted, an official said Monday.
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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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After delays over fraud charges and boycott threats, the vote count in Afghanistan's presidential election finally began, five days after millions of men and women defied the Taliban to have their first say in their country's destiny.
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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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Afghan and foreign officials are urging patience as they start investigating alleged cases of voter fraud in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election.
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Vote counting started yesterday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, widely expected to install Hamid Karzai, the US-backed interim leader, as the country&#39;s first popularly chosen president.
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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 head of the Afghan-U.N...
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai (HAH&#39;-mihd KAHR&#39;-zeye) has a majority of estimated votes cast in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential elections, but he&#39;s not the winner yet.
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Problems loom for the presidential election including voting equipment changes that could delay the outcome past Nov. 2, a group of international observers said Tuesday in a report.
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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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Counting began in Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election Thursday, five days after the poll  took place, an official for the Afghan-U.N. Joint Electoral  Management Body said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai's rivals said Sunday it was too early to call Afghanistan's inaugural presidential election, despite the interim leader's dominant showing after three days of vote-counting.    The U.S.-backed incumbent's main challenger, Yunus Qanooni, insisted that a full count and a proper investigation by a panel of foreign experts on fraud allegations could yet put him in the running...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country&#39;s historic presidential poll, but the result will not be announced for a day or so until the last few hundred
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Poll organisers in Afghanistan set a deadline for allegations of voter fraud before the ballot count may begin.
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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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Hamid Karzai was set to become Afghanistan's first elected president after winning historic October 9 polls by a landslide, but a fraud inquiry and a slow final count delayed a formal announcement.