In a move that seems to virtually ensure the victory of incumbent President Hamid Karzai, the UN-backed Election Complaints Commission (ECC) has published its new rules for handling the massive voter fraud in August’s election.
Under the rules, the ECC will invalidate ballots in suspicious boxes in proportion to the number cast for a candidate, regardless of who was responsible for the fraud. In short, if a Karzai supporter added 1,000 votes to a ballot box which split evenly with opponent Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai’s opponent would lose the same number of votes as Karzai did. Though fraud was disproportionately in Karzai-heavy districts it will likely still make it impossible for Karzai to lose enough votes to force a run-off.
This is bound to add further to accusations of a pro-Karzai bias by the UN mission. The second in command at the mission, fired last week for complaining about fraud, says he was ordered to cover up the extent of fraud on Karzai’s behalf.
The UN reportedly had evidence that one in three Karzai votes was fraudulent, though former ambassador Galbraith was ordered to keep this secret. The man doing the ordering, Kai Eide, reportedly told Karzai that he supported his re-election campaign.
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces?? What happened to
sneak-thief-ism or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces?? What happened to
sneak-thief-ism or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces?? What happened to
sneak-thief-ism……or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces?? What happened to
sneak-thief-ism……or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces??……..What happened to sneak-thief-ism……or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
Has the U.N. been emboldened to the extent that they fix elections in our faces??……..What happened to sneak-thief-ism……or is smash and grab more fashionable these days in Afghanistan ..??????? Nice to see that the U.N. is so transparent in abetting the fraud. It reminds me of Larry Silverstein's smirk when he tells how they "decided to pullit"
In my view it is a far reaching scandal that Kai Eide is still in power. He has to resign, the faster, the better! The UN should reinstall Mr. Gailbraith who has all the civil courage that is urgently needed in international organisations working in Afghanistan.
Also President Karzai has to resign. According to the estimates up to 30 % for the votes for him have been manipulated. Even ten % should be sufficient to kick him out of the presidency!
Michael