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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 15:45 Mecca time, 12:45 GMT  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200 910201225598138.html   News CENTRAL/S. ASIA     Afghanistan to hold poll runoff           Afghanistan is to hold a presidential poll runoff after the Independent Election Commission ruled over a third of incumbent Hamid Karzai's vote as fraudulant. The Independent ...

Afghanistan: anatomy of an election disaster by Jon Boone http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m59130&hd=&siz e=1&l=e October 20, 2009 For a couple of days last month at a cavernous warehouse in the bleak industrial zone of western Kabul, diplomats, UN officials and election monitors gathered to watch hundreds of ballot boxes being opened and turned out on to the floor. The ...