Monday, October 11, 2004

Afghan Election Good News! (Update)

On Saturday I posted “Voting in Afghanistan” which pointed out that there are was controversy. That controversy is subsiding per this Washington Post story.
Controversy clouding Afghanistan's historic first presidential election eased Sunday when several major opposition candidates backed off from assertions that voter fraud and errors at polling places had rendered Saturday's vote meaningless and illegitimate.
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Robert Barry, who headed the European delegation monitoring the election, said the opposition candidates' demands to nullify the vote were "unjustified"
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UPDATE: (via INDC Journal)
Once again, INDC Journal is much more informative on this and I felt anyone that was interested in this story should definitely visit their latest post on it.

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