Afghan Election Commission to Start Recounting Votes
The IEC said that the vote recount will start on Monday, but there is controversy over some votes recently deemed invalid by the biometrics company Dermalog.
The Independent Election Commission on Sunday said that it will start the recounting of votes in 34 provinces on Monday.
The commission on Saturday released new vote numbers, saying that the Dermalog company had identified 1,843,107 valid votes out of the 1,929,333 votes already transferred to the commission’s central database.
But election observers—primarily from Abdullah Abdullah’s electoral team– did not accept the new statistics released by Dermalog and added that more than 137,000 originally-quarantined votes should not be included in the process.
According to Abdullah’s team, these 137,000 votes are fraudulent votes and they must invalidated. But the Election Commission said Dermalog will provide an explanation on the 137,000 votes in the next two days.
Critics say these 137,000 votes were sent to the commission’s database only one day after the elections, and that these votes are fake.
Regarding the recount, the Election Commission so far has not clarified which polling sites in which provinces will be recounted.
“The Council of Presidential Candidates believes that if there is even one fraudulent vote and someone makes his way to the president’s office with that fake vote—this will not, of course, be acceptable,” said presidential candidate Shahab Hakimi.
“There are another 100,000 votes which need to be invalidated. Another 50,000 to 70,000 votes are those votes which had photograph issues or they otherwise don’t meet the criteria,” said Noor Rahman Akhlaqi, a member of Abdullah Abdullah campaign.
“This was a technical failure of the commission and this has been resolved, and no one should call it fraud,” said Qader Hoodkhel, a member of Ashraf Ghani’s election campaign.
- Previous Yemen’s Socotra residents divided in conflict
- Next A US-China trade war deal, coupled with central bank monetary policy easing, could buck global slowdown predictions
You may also like...
Recent Posts
- US-Iran talks in Islamabad failed. Explained in 5 points
- Iran denies any US navy ships passed Hormuz, warns of attack
- Cuba stays defiant: President Miguel Díaz-Canel says he’s ‘not stepping down’
- An Uzbek Sindarov and Kazakh Asaubayeva are friends! Two Top Chess Players in World Cup Turnament
- Chinese Global Times: How ASEAN+3 can lift economic co-op by navigating uncertainty
- To drop US dollar for Chinese Yan: Crown Prince of UAE to visit China today
- Heúrēka-Eureka: Sumo’s ban on women not always a tradition
- India says its INS Aridhaman – a Nuclear submarine a deterrence on a permanent patrol
- Trump’s Total 2027 National Security Spending Will Exceed $2.5 Trillion
- Turks, to be 1st, to drill offshore oil off Somalia shores
Random news
Views
- North Korea’s New Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile, the Hwasong-12: First Takeaways - 993 views
- Chinese military base in Djibouti necessary to protect key trade routes linking Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe - 992 views
- OIC, 57-nation Islamic body calls US travel ban a ‘grave concern’ - 721 views
- Goods from China start to be shipped by train to Europe: Luxembourg-Chengdu freight train route launched - 690 views
- Kyrgyzstan actively working on start of construction of China—Kyrgyzstan—Uzbekistan railroad - 602 views
- Iran tested medium-range ballistic missile - 566 views
- Why Indians want to have white skin?! Pakistani authors thoughts. Article: The complexion of a new culture - 563 views
- China: Philippines can’t claim Benham Rise - 544 views
- Gabbard allies rush to her defense after Assad meeting - 521 views
- The great tea robbery: how the British stole China’s secrets and seeds – and broke its monopoly on the brew - 353 views
About us

Our Newly established Center for study of Asian Affairs has
branches in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as freelances in some other countries.
For inquires, please contact: newsofasia.info@yahoo.com Mr.Mohd Zarif - Secretary of the Center and administer of the web-site www.newsofasia.net



