Afghan election snafu -- wrong ink
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- An estimated 10 million Afghans lined up outside schools, mosques and hospitals to take part in the first direct presidential election in the nation&#39;s 200-year history.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- Foreign election experts on Wednesday studied complaints from candidates in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election, setting aside suspect ballot boxes and further delaying the vote count.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election had problems ranging from delible ink to untrained poll workers, but those flaws did not tarnish the remarkable accomplishment of a nation, which only three years ago was under control of the oppressive Taliban, holding its first
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Voters and analysts fear that ballot-box clash of Karzai and rival candidate from different ethnic group could bring disaster.
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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election was plunged into crisis on Saturday after 14 of the 18 candidates demanded voting be stopped because of irregularities, casting a pall over the enthusiasm of voters who turned out in force across the troubled country.
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KABUL : With more than half the ballots in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election counted and outright victory virtually assured for incumbent Hamid Karzai, attention has turned to when the winner can be declared and how opposition candidates will react.
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The battlelines have been drawn for  Afghanistan's historic presidential vote in two days' time and  it's not about President Hamid Karzai and whether he wins.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Engine failure brought down a UN helicopter sent to collect ballot boxes from northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring no one but causing a new glitch in efforts to tally the results of the country's landmark presidential election.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election began today, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Chances for a conclusive result to Afghanistan's landmark election were on firmer ground Tuesday after President Hamid Karzai's main challenger backed away from a boycott, indicating he'd accept an independent commission to probe vote-fraud charges.    Although no ballots from Saturday's election have been counted yet, the U.S.-backed interim leader is the clear favorite to win...
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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KABUL - An irregularity was reported Saturday in the first hours of Afghanistanâs first democratic presidential election in history.
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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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KABUL - Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election officially started on Thursday, five days after the vote. The tally has been delayed because of an investigation into alleged irregularities on election day.
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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Pens filled with disappearing ink. Hospital patients forced to vote in exchange for treatment. Students instructed to show their ballots to professors. These are just some of the tricks used to skew Ukraine's disputed presidential election, observers say.