Violations

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Monday said 65,000 to 80,000 votes would have been invalidated and the election results changed had a proper vote audit and recount been conducted.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday barred election officials from traveling abroad.
In a decree, whose copy has been obtained by Pajhwok Afghan News, Abdullah banned chairpersons and members of both election panels from leaving the country.
The CEO ordered the Ministry of Interior to take the matter seriously, warning that any negligence in implementation of the decree would not be brooked.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Soon after the announcement of the final results from the presidential vote, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah vowed to establish a parallel and inclusive government.
Late on Tuesday, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced President Ashraf Ghani had won the September 2019 election with 50.64 percent of vote, followed by Abdullah.

SAR-I-PUL (Pajhwok): The vote audit process was expected today Sunday but could not be started as yet due to absence of Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) observers, officials said.
The special audit of 10 percent of total 137,630 votes and 15 percent of the total 102,012 votes was expected to start today.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The file of last year’s presidential election is being closed within next two days, announced the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission on Tuesday.
IECC Secretary Chaman Etemadi told media persons that no major case of rigging and fraud remained uninvestigated.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Monday said electoral objections from some provinces were on the table with commissioners for final decision.
Mohammad Reza Fayaz, IECC deputy spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that categorization and review of some objections had been completed and the process would be wrapped up on schedule if no problem happened.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday said the vote audit and recount process in some suspicious polling stations has not been started yet, pending correction of the final list in this regard.
Sayed Zabihullah Sadat, acting IEC spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the commission was ready for vote recount and audit of suspicious polling stations.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Tuesday announced closing registration of appellant complaints and officially starting addressing 6,300 complaints.
Zuhra Bayan Shinwari, IECC head, told a press conference in Kabul that the appellant complaints were registered from 29 provinces.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The appellant court in Kabul has sentenced a number of former Independent Election Commission (IEC) and Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) commissioners to two and a half years in jail each.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Tuesday announced invalidating votes of 109 polling stations, dismissing 71 Independent Election Commission (IEC) workers and suggesting audit and recount of votes of over 5,300 sites.