Fraud put at quarter of Afghan vote
Posted: September 17, 2009 at 6:04 a.m.
U.S. soldiers head out on patrol Wednesday in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials issued full preliminary results Wednesday showing President Hamid Karzai got 54.6 percent of the vote in last month's election, a figure that could be annulled by mounting fraud allegations.
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Afghan Election Commission Secretariat Dawod Ali Najafi announces the final result during a press conference, in Kabul, Afgha...
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