Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Meanwhile over in Shitholeistan
There is still no answer to the age old question, which side cheated more in the presidential elections?
Afghanistan’s deadlocked presidential election was plunged into further turmoil Wednesday, as both run-off candidates pulled their observers from a U.N.-backed audit of votes.In the meantime the country just keeps on plugging along and the Taliban keeps on attacking and Karzai of the Afghans is shifting as much money as he can to overseas banks. And hopefully we will have to pull everybody out at the end of the year.
The recount formed part of a U.S.-brokered deal to head off growing tension over the results of the national ballot between rivals Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, who have both claimed victory in the contest intended to mark the country's first democratic transfer of power.
Abdullah’s side said Thursday that the process was “full of fraud,” with the former foreign minister’s chief auditor adding: “We boycotted the audit process today because it is worthless for us.”
A few hours later, the United Nations asked former finance minister Ghani’s team to withdraw its observers in the interests of fairness.
Abdullah had earlier signaled his intention to pull out of the audit. He accuses those involved in the process of refusing to throw out fraudulent ballot papers and has demanded an independent investigation.
Allegations of vote fraud have long dogged the presidential election.
Liam McDowall, a spokesman for the United Nations in Kabul, confirmed that there had been a "temporary pause'' in the audit process but said monitors did not anticipate it would be a significant disruption.
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