Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said at a news conference in Kabul 20 October that there will be a run-off election 7 November between himself and his nearest opponent Abdullah Abdullah. Bowing to unprecedented international pressure, he said he accepted the revised results of the Independent Election Commission, which last week received the results of an investigation into massive fraud in the first round which invalidated up to a third of the votes. BBC, CNN, Reuters
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News story, GenevaLunch, 20 October 2009.
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Tags: Abdullah Abdullah, fraud, Hamid Karzai, independent Election Commission, Kabul Afghanistan, run-off elections
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October 20th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Afghanistan can explore borrowing electronic voting machines from India to conduct this run-off. India has good experience of using the machine that can guard against tampering, save on printing, counting fraud, save on time to count. Its a real practical way nations can partner and succeed.