UN takes steps to prevent repeat Afghan Election Fraud

(Bloomberg)

Afghan and UN officials are taking the necessary steps to ensure the carded November 7 Afghan Presidential elections are not narred by fraud as the run-off elections which took place two months ago.

After a UN probe, it was found that over 1 million electoral ballots were suspicous in the August 20 election. Calls have been made by Presidential Candidate and Afhgan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah for "more tranparent" processes for the upcoming election. In a statement to the New York press, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stated "We will try to ensure that all Afghan people should be able to express their own will freely and without any intimidation and threat"

More than 200 of the 380 district election coordinators from the first round of elections have been fired for complicity in the fraud and polling station where irregularities occured, will not be re-opened in the upcoming elections.

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