Ink mars Afghan voting
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Afghans packed polling stations Saturday for a historic presidential election that was blemished when all 15 candidates opposing US-backed interim President Hamid
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country's first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic prosperity after more than two decades of war.    Voters stood in line for hours outside polling stations in bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals, while more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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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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VOTE counting has begun in Afghanistan, after a massive turnout in a tumultuous presidential poll marred by fraud claims and an opposition boycott.
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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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Organising the first presidential election in Afghanistan, a country largely without power, roads or literacy, has required a leap of imagination that has encompassed everything from donkeys to satellite phones.
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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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For the first time since independence in 1919, voters in Afghanistan will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. Enthusiasm is high: more than 11 million registered
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Afghanistan will undergo the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history on October 9, 2004. As if surprised by the fact that Afghans could want a voice in their
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Thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan  may have failed to catch Osama bin Laden but they are credited  with encouraging millions of Afghans to register for the  country's historic election in October.
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After decades of rule by the bullet instead of the ballot box, war-weary Afghans could not hide their delight as they got the chance to vote in elections they hope will end years of conflict.
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Ballot boxes poured into vote counting centers across Afghanistan on Monday, while an independent panel will probe allegations the landmark election was marred by fraud.
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DARA ONE, Pakistan  - Abdul Wahid's desire to vote  in next month's Afghan presidential election is driven by a  simple logic.
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Vote counting has finally started in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, held last weekend, after a probe into fraud allegations halted the process.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai alleged fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once and vowed to boycott the results.    But electoral officials rejected the candidates' call to abandon the rest of the balloting, saying it would rob millions of voters of their chance to cast ballots and that they would rule later on the legitimacy of the election...
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Ballots from Afghanistan's first direct  presidential election poured into collection centers across the  country on Tuesday, brought by donkey, road and helicopter.
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With voting concluded, Afghans started the process of counting the ballots cast in the nation&#39;s first-ever presidential election -- one marred by opposition protests.