Afghan govt throws out 1.3 million votes

I have a better idea. Why don’t these morons throw out ALL their votes and just have the candidates running for election (all 249 of them) draw straws. Either way it really makes no difference. These people could elect their pet camels and donkeys as their governmental leaders and the results would be the same; the country will still be nothing but a toilet bowl. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

Photography: Reuters

By HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press Writer Heidi Vogt, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 20, 8:13 am ET

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan has released full preliminary results from last month’s parliamentary election, throwing out more than 20 percent of ballots because of fraud.

Election commission chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi says about 1.3 million votes were disqualified out of 5.6 million. That means about 23 percent of ballots were discarded because of ballot-box stuffing or re-jiggered totals.

Election officials called the vote a success because they were able to catch the fraud, but the number of fraudulent ballots also indicates that cheating was pervasive in a vote that many hoped would show the government’s commitment to reform.

It was not immediately clear what the results released Wednesday would mean for the makeup of the 249-member parliament.

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