"election that was relatively peaceful and orderly"
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"an election marred by violence"
I'm welling up again!
"Karzai, challenger insist they are ahead in Afghan vote" by Jason Straziuso and Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | August 22, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - .... an election marred by violence....
And not only that:
There were some irregularities. The Times of London newspaper reported yesterday that election officials at a polling station near Kabul recorded 5,530 ballots in the first hour of voting Thursday, even though no voters were at the site when the its reporter arrived at 8 a.m., one hour after the voting began. Election workers said the area was pro-Karzai and was controlled by a lawmaker who said he had already voted for the president even though his finger wasn’t marked with indelible ink, a fraud-prevention measure, the Times reported.
The International Republican Institute, a US-based nonprofit that had about 30 election observers in Afghanistan, said that the vote was at a “lower standard’’ than the 2004 presidential ballot and 2005 parliamentary vote but that “the process so far has been credible.’’Some American Republican group affirmed the vote?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
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Now about that process....
"Observers say Afghan elections marred" by Carlotta Gall, New York Times | August 23, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - Reports of fraud and intimidation in Afghanistan’s presidential election continued to mount yesterday, with anecdotal but widespread accounts of ballot-box stuffing, a lack of impartiality among election workers and voters casting ballots for others.
A particular concern was the notably low turnout of women, who election observer organizations said were disproportionately affected by the violence and intimidation.
After we were served up these propaganda shots?
An Afghan election official steps under a tape as voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kabul on Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in a mosque in Kabul, Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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I was told it was a peaceful and orderly vote. WTF?
Election officials said that all the reports needed to be investigated, and that it was too early to draw broad conclusions about the overall validity of the vote. The reports by election observers came as officials were still counting ballots from Afghanistan’s second nationwide election in the nearly eight years since an American-led invasion ousted the Taliban....
The reported problems also included voter intimidation, by the Taliban and also by some powerful candidates, in particular local candidates running for provincial council seats. Voter turnout appeared to be low, especially in the volatile south where the Taliban is strongest.
Then WHY were they REGISTERING VOTERS?
See: The Afghan Vote
But women voters seemed to have faced disproportionate obstacles, election observer groups said.
I was told it was a success!!!
Hundreds of polling stations for women did not even open in some areas where Taliban influence is high, but women also suffered discrimination and intimidation in some places in central and northern Afghanistan. Female candidates received threats and were largely ignored in news coverage of the elections, the observers said.
You mean WOMEN were also threatened by OTHERS and it wasn't reported much?
No kidding?
“The disproportionate effects of poor security conditions, widespread cultural opposition to women in public life and a number of attacks clearly aimed at deterring women’s activities all created significant obstacles,’’ the European Union observer mission said in its preliminary statement yesterday.
Women are already restricted by the conservative culture in many parts of rural Afghanistan, but the growing instability has further consolidated the opinions of many families and communities that it is not appropriate for women to be active outside the home, the statement said.
At least they aren't whoring them out to do pornographic movies.
Oh, we call that liberation here in Zionist-controlled AmeriKa.
At least 650 women’s polling centers that were planned did not open on the day, according to Free and Fair Elections in Afghanistan, known as FEFA, the largest Afghan observer organization.
In the southern province of Oruzgan, of 36 centers for women planned, only six opened, said Nader Naderi, director of FEFA. In certain polling centers in the south and southeast of the country almost no women voted, according to the National Democratic Institute, an American-financed group that promotes democracy abroad.
So the DEMOCRAPS and REPUGLICANS each have a propaganda branch for world affairs?
The insecurity also led to greater proxy voting, in which male family members vote for the women, further robbing women of their rights, observers said.
Is dropping bombs on them and incinerating their families a violation of their rights?
Afghan women have been granted equal rights under the new Constitution, and can run for office - and there is a quota system that provides a minimum 25 percent representation of women in provincial councils. Two women entered the presidential race this year, and 333 entered the provincial council elections, roughly 10 percent of the total field of council candidates. There was a slight increase nationwide of women’s participation as candidates, but in nearly half the provinces, women’s participation decreased, the European Union observation mission reported.
Female candidates complained that the insecurity made it impossible in some places to campaign. Assassinations of women working in government positions in provinces like Kandahar have undoubtedly deterred others from coming forward....
You want to help Afghan women?
Go here: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
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But it was not just the violence that hampered women in the election. Women received almost no coverage in news reporting, and topics concerning women’s rights were virtually never featured in news coverage of the electoral campaign, the European Union mission said.
Women in Afghanistan are ignored much like the 9/11 lies here in AmeriKa's newspapers.
In addition to the problems listed by FEFA, which had 7,000 observers out on election day, more than 4,000 of them women, the European Union observer mission also criticized the appointment of election officials, unbalanced news media coverage during the campaign, and irregularities in voter registration that increased the potential for fraud.
The FIRST THING that I thought of was the RON PAUL CAMPAIGN and the AmeriKan MSM!
The National Democratic Institute also criticized the problem of multiple registration of voters and subsequent fraud, as well as the misuse of state resources in campaigning, and proxy voting.
How about bringing that s*** home, huh?
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