Afghans Begin Counting Presidential Votes
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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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With victory all but a formality in  Afghanistan's historic presidential election, Hamid Karzai  waited on Tuesday for the final votes to be counted to confirm  his win.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy, and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence.    After 25 years of near-constant war, voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time as more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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Afghanistan was preparing on Tuesday to  count votes after rivals of President Hamid Karzai said they  had withdrawn their rejection of the weekend presidential poll.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - 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.    Organizers of the vote are hoping the establishment of the panel - made up of about three foreign election experts - will end an opposition boycott that could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - 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.    International officials met privately in an effort to end a boycott of the ballot by opponents of U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai, a heavy favorite to win...
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KABUL, 10/09 - Afghanistan`s first direct presidential election began at 7 aM (local time) Saturday amid tight security. More than 10.
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Afghans have braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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Preliminary vote totals in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election appear to give transitional leader Hamid Karzai a numeric lock on the victory.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s historic elections is almost finished, with incumbent President Hamid Karzai on course to win a simple majority.
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Afghanistan's presidential vote count is expected to conclude Tuesday but several procedural steps remain before any declaration of incumbent Hamid Karzai's landslide victory in the historic ballot.
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Afghan officials delayed counting ballots  on Monday to deal with complaints of fraud in a historic  presidential election, but several candidates appeared to be  pulling back from an initial decision to reject the vote.
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The counting of ballots from Afghanistan&#39;s Oct. 9 presidential election began after a delay caused by allegations of voting irregularities, the country&#39;s electoral commission said.
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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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Voting has begun in Afghanistan for the first direct presidential election in the country's history.
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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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With 99 percent of the votes still to be  counted in Afghanistan's presidential election, incumbent Hamid  Karzai has taken a lead many observers expect him to retain  right to the end of a marathon count.