How the Afghanistan Presidential Election Was Rigged
No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
I continue to believe Hamid Karzai is the best person to be in the exceedingly challenging job of president of Afghanistan. I very much doubt the merits of an American-style country-wide election for president, in a country like Afghanistan. Karzai should make a deal with Abdullah Abdullah (main challenger) and put this thing behind him, if he can.