Afghanistan: Election Fraud Triggers Investigation

Accusations of voter fraud in Afghanistan’s September elections have triggered an investigation by the country’s attorney general, according to Joshua Partlow in today’s Washington Post. “Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari said his staff has begun investigating nine cases in which election officials, all but one of them at the Kabul headquarters of the Independent Election Commission, are accused of rigging votes.” Afghan officials announced following the election that 1.3 million of the 5.6 million total ballots cast had to be disqualified because of likely fraud.