Panel voids ballots at 83 Afghan sites
Recount ordered in hundreds of others
Posted: September 11, 2009 at 6:24 a.m.
The father of Sultan Munadi cries as he offers a prayer for his son, an Afghan translator and journalist who was killed during an operation by British forces to rescue a British-Irish journalist. Afghan journalists criticized the mission on Thursday.
A fraud commission threw out votes Thursday from 83 polling stations and ordered recounts at hundreds of others in three provinces that form Afghan President Hamid Karzai's political base, reducing his chances of avoiding a runoff.
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