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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Wednesday said ballots from 291 of 444 suspected polling sites had been found valid.
IECC Secretary Mohammad Nadir Mohseni said the Independent Election Commission (IEC) had shared with them an assessment of the ballots from the said sites.
Speaking to journalists at a public hearing in Kabul, he said no vote was cast at 91 polling sites, while ballots from 26 other sites had been ignored for certain other reasons.

KABUL (Pajhwok): More electoral complaints were investigated by the Independent Election Complaint Commission (IECC) at a fourth public hearing on Tuesday, an official said.
Most of the 74 complaints were recorded against the campaign teams of leading presidential runners Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in the northeastern zone.
Representatives of candidates, civil society organisations and media outlets were also present on the occasion.

KABUL (Pajhwok): In the run-up to the final outcome, the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Monday evaluated more than 240 complaints.
Representatives of civil society, candidates and media outlets attended the third public hearing into complaints from Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Uruzgan, Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor and Nimroz provinces.
Most of the complaints were recorded in Kandahar and Herat provinces against Zalmai Rassoul and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. Fraud by election workers, security forces and warlords were among the objections.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Sunday publicly heard cases of fraud in the April 5 presidential vote in the central zone.
Complaints from Kabul, Parwan, Kapisa, Maidan Wardak, Logar, Panjsher, Bamyan, Daikundi and Ghazni were reviewed at a meeting attended by civil society activists, election observers, media and candidate representatives.
Category-A objections involved documentary evidence, category-B complaints were decided by the commission and category-C plaints disposed of by the panel’s provincial offices.

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The US on Thursday called on Afghanistan’s electoral bodies to stay impartial in the process of preparing presidential election results.
Addressing a press conference in Herat City, US Consul General Yojin Es Young said people would participate in the run-off vote with the same level of enthusiasm as they did in the April 5 elections.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC) on Wednesday declared null and void about 230,000 votes cast at 525 polling sites in the April 5 presidential polls.
After a public hearing on the issue, IECC Chairman Abdul Sattar Sadat wrote on his Facebook page the commission had decided to scrap the ballots. He called the action a key step in the fight against fraud.
Representatives of presidential runners, human rights bodies, civil society organisations, media and election observers attended the meeting.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Monday confirmed receiving 71 complaints against preliminary results of the April 5 presidential elections.
IECC spokesman Nader Muhseni told reporters in Kabul most of the complaints were about the fate of invalidated votes in provinces, interferences by powerful individuals and the use of government resources.
He said the complaints regarding the preliminary results included 70 objections, which had been submitted by one of the leading candidates.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC) on Sunday announced 7:00pm as deadline for filing complaints in connection of preliminary results from April 5 election but so far none of the contenders filed any complaint.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) late on Saturday announced preliminary results from the April 5 presidential election with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah securing 44.9 percent followed by Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai with 31.5 percent votes.

SHARANA (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC) on Friday said the media had been released incorrect figures about the quarantined ballot boxes and invalidated votes in southeastern Paktia province.
Two days back, IECC commissioner Abdul Hamid Malang in Paktika had committed a mistake in figures released to the media, IECC commissioner Muhammad Khan Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News.
“Malang told the media that ballot boxes of 183 polling centres are quarantined and votes cast at 12 polling centers invalidated,” Abid recalled.