More than 20 percent of vote thrown out in Afghan election

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

October 20, 2010 -- Updated 0914 GMT (1714 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
About 23 percent of the vote is tossed out, the election commission says
Earlier this week the commission said 10 percent of votes were thrown
The election has been viewed as a test of Afghanistan's new democracy

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission released preliminary results of the September 18 parliamentary elections stating that 1.3 million votes of the total of 5.6 million ballots have been cancelled out because of fraud.

That means about 23 percent of the total votes were tossed out, the election commission said Wednesday.

On Monday, the election commission announced that 10 percent of the votes in the election would be thrown out because of suspected fraud.

It was not immediately clear Wednesday why more votes were thrown out.

This announcement comes after allegations of ballot-box stuffing and bribery have tainted the vote.



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/afghanistan.election/

[valerief]

1. A bigger percentage of ours is thrown out due to electronic voting fraud,

other election fraud, and, of course, Supreme Court fraud.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I guess Afghanistan is picking up this 'American democracy' thing quite well.

[Alcibiades]

3. This is probably the number needed

to produce the result they want.