Accusations of Fraud Mar Afghan Election
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans packed polling stations on Saturday for a historic presidential election that was blemished when all 15 candidates opposing U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai withdrew, charging the government and the U.N. with fraud and incompetence...
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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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Election officials fanned out across Afghanistan to inspect several dozen suspicious ballot boxes that are delaying the end of the presidential vote count and the declaration of Hamid Karzai as the violence-weary nation's first popularly chosen leader.
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Even as Afghans were still going to vote in the countryâs presidential election on Saturday, 15 of the 16 candidates launched a concerted protest over widespread voting irregularities favouring the US-backed incumbent Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Investigators on Wednesday said that a weeks-long probe into fraud in Afghanistanâs presidential election had concluded that any problems with fraud were not serious enough to have overturned incumbent Hamid Karzaiâs victory.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A senior election official in Afghanistan says there is clear evidence of ballot stuffing in the country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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Another top rival to Afghan election  frontrunner President Hamid Karzai ended his boycott of the  process on Wednesday, but vote counting was further delayed as  a panel began to sift through dozens of complaints of fraud.
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Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud in this nation's first-ever presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this war-ravaged land started to stack up in counting centers.
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History is being made in Afghanistan, as the country takes part in its first-ever presidential election. But while most Afghans are enthusiastic, the candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai claim
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Five days before Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, concerns are growing about media bias in favour of front-runner President Hamid Karzai.
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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.    Karzai, Afghanistan's stopgap president since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, had captured 62.6 percent of the 1.04 million ballots counted by Monday - about 13 percent of the vote...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - All 15 candidates running against interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai boycotted Afghanistan's historic election Saturday, claiming widespread fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once.    The opposition candidates said they would not recognize the results of the vote because of what election officials described as a mix-up...
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Afghanistan's protracted election vote count finally drew to a close with President Hamid Karzai the landslide victor, but an official declaration of his win still awaited the verdict of a fraud probe.
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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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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 their demand that the vote be called off, saying an apparent mix-up with ink used to mark voters' thumbs was not severe enough to halt the historic vote...
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(Kabul, Afghanistan-AP) Oct. 9, 2004 - Afghanistan&#39;s interim leader says allegations of fraud shouldn&#39;t overshadow efforts of the Afghan people, who turned out by the millions to vote despite dust and snow and rain and threats of violence.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - The likely runner-up in  Afghanistan's historic presidential election alleged on Monday  that the vote was marred by cheating, as President Hamid Karzai  appeared on course to win without needing a second round  runoff.