Evidence Mounts That Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud

It is a nice thought , thinking that Afghanistan could handle a vote without Rampant fraud , But come on did you really expect it ?

And why the hell is America Partly to blame ?

an outcome that calls into question the U.S. and Afghan effort to build a legitimate government, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Calls into question ? No Shit ! Not by any of the U.S. Doing . Afghanistan is just not ready to throw off their Training wheels just yet , Maybe in 2 or 3 Hundred years from Now !


Foxnews
Results from last weekend’s parliamentary election in Afghanistan increasingly appear to be marred by fraud
, with a third of the provinces affected -- an outcome that calls into question the U.S. and Afghan effort to build a legitimate government, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The Election Complaints Commission said Thursday it received more than 3,000 complaints since last weekend’s election. Such complaints to provincial election commissions have included video clips showing ballot stuffing, heavily-armed election officials and strong-arming of and even the handcuffing and detention of election workers, the newspaper reported.

In some regions, election officials are suspected of carrying out the fraud, while in others the government employees did, witnesses reported to the newspaper. One video demonstrated election officials and a candidate's representatives bartering over the price of votes.

The increasing evidence of fraud and corruption of some candidates raised alarm about the effort to build a stable government that can draw the support of Afghans, the Obama administration and its NATO partners, the newspaper said.