50 Suspected of Fraud in Election Are Fired
From Times Wire Reports
Election authorities said that they had fired about 50 employees suspected of fraud in last month’s legislative polls.
About 680 ballot boxes, or 3% of the vote, were taken out of the counting process because of suspicions that they were stuffed, said Richard Atwood, chief of operations for the joint U.N.-Afghan election commission.
But he ruled out a recount, saying the suspected fraud “does not affect the integrity of the election.”
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