Many Afghans Loath to Have Their Vote Scrapped
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Los Angeles Times - KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; If the 15 candidates who have protested the conduct of this country's first democratic presidential election persist, they may need to tangle with Aji Ghulem Rasul, a 67-year-old, barrel-chested former wrestler.
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KABULâTrying to pull off Afghanistan&#39;s first national presidential vote this Saturday will be a daunting task in this war-ravaged country largely lacking roads, security, electricity, phones and even literate voters.
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KABUL -- As  an endless procession of Afghans passes through the grim Soviet-era office of Masooda Jalal, all apparently enthusiastic about electing her the next president of Afghanistan, there are strange echoes in her responses of familiar American political themes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it began Saturday, when the 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai said they would boycott the results, alleging fraud over the ink meant to ensure people voted only once.    The boycott undermined hopes of Afghan voters who had braved threats of Taliban violence and crammed polling stations throughout this ethnically diverse nation...
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Election officials in Afghanistan  collected ballots on Sunday from a historic presidential vote  which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most  of the candidates announced a boycott.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Foreign election specialists yesterday studied complaints from candidates in Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election, setting aside suspect ballot boxes and further delaying the vote count.
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Millions of Afghans voted for a president yesterday in a joyous national repudiation of the armed militia factions that have fought for power here for years.
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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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Afghan officials have delayed counting ballots in a historic presidential election to deal with complaints of fraud, but several of the candidates appear to be pulling
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Hamid Karzai announced a boycott, saying a system to prevent illegal multiple voting had failed. The JEMB said on Monday it was investigating the complaints.
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Afghanistan was set to start counting  votes on Wednesday from a historic presidential election after  several candidates backed off from declaring the poll illegal.
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Afghan officials were due to begin  counting votes on Monday after a controversial presidential  election that was in danger of being scrapped but is more  likely to be a turning point in the history of the war-torn  nation.
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Groups fear that a vote amid persistent violence and a boycott by Sunnis would deprive the results of legitimacy.
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Hamid Karzai is about to win in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but the returns show that dangerous ethnic divides could become a major problem if he wins.
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Afghans are voting in a historic poll that aimed to give the mountainous and impoverished Islamic nation its first elected president and perhaps end over a quarter-century of war.
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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.