SHARAN (Pajhwok): At least ballots of 183 polling centres had been quarantined in southeastern Paktika province, election officials said on Tuesday.
Abdul Majid Malang, the Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC) commissioner in Paktika, said 50 of the voting centres were located in Orgun and the rests in other districts.
In his chat with Pajhwok Afghan News, he added: “Each voting centre comprises six ballot boxes and 1,098 ballot boxes of the polling centres have been quarantined. Bogus and valid votes will be separated.”
He said votes of 12 boxes in Waza Khwah and Wrombai districts that were reportedly stuffed in favor of presidential and provincial council runners had been declared invalid. But he gave no further details.
Paktika IECC director, Muhammad Hanif Hairan, said they played active role in monitoring the polls in the province.
So far, 34 of the 43 complaints recorded by his office, which were evaluated with nine more, were sent to the main office for evaluation, he added.
Hairan said the women department director, Bibi Hawa and district chief of Khoshamand, Gula Khan had been fined 35,000 and 70,000 afghanis respectively following their involvement in fraud in the ballot.
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