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UN to Sack Half of Afghan Election Officials

Ban Ki-Moon plans measures to ensure widespread fraud isn't repeated

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(Newser) – The United Nations learned "quite a painful lesson" from the widespread fraud in Afghanistan's August election, and aims to rout out corrupt voting supervisors next time around, Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday. The UN secretary-general said more than half of the election officials should be removed before next month's runoff election "to ensure a fair and transparent process," the BBC reports. UN officials aim to visit every polling station during the November 7 vote.

A voter tries hard to locate the candidate of her choice at a polling booth in Herat, Afghanistan, in August.
A voter tries hard to locate the candidate of her choice at a polling booth in Herat, Afghanistan, in August.   (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)
Ballot boxes sit outside the election commission office in Kandahar province south of Kabul in August.
Ballot boxes sit outside the election commission office in Kandahar province south of Kabul in August.   (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
Afghan presidential candidate and current President Hamid Karzai walks toward a polling booth before casting his vote at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.
Afghan presidential candidate and current President Hamid Karzai walks toward a polling booth before casting his vote at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.   (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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We have made it clear to the Afghan government, and we made it clear to the Security Council, that there was fraud we wanted to rectify. - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

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