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| Five Including IEC Employee Arrested For Selling Votes: MoIA |
| 2014-04-05 |
[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA) on Friday reported that at least five people, including an employee of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), were incarceratedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Kabul for reportedly attempting to sell nearly 4,000 voting cards. The presidential and provincial council elections tomorrow will be Afghanistan's first democratic process entirely managed by Afghan authorities since the U.S.-led invasion helped install the current government over a decade ago. "One of the five men arrested was serving as a DFC of the Election Commission and the head of a polling site in Kabul city, he abused his position and was selling voting cards," MoIA front man Sediq Sediqi said on Friday. Although the IEC employee went unnamed, his title as a District Field Coordinator would place him in the middle-to-upper range of Commission personnel. Responding to news of the arrests, the Independent Election Commission (IEC), which has assured this Saturday's elections will be more transparent and credible than those of past years, reminded its employees publicly that anyone found guilty of electoral improprieties would face legal repercussions. "...his name would be put on a blacklist and he would lose the chance to work in any of the institutions in the future, the nation must have confidence," IEC Secretariat chief Zia ul Haq Amarkhail said. But the problem of voter cards sales has generally been a much bigger concern when it comes to average Afghans, rather than IEC employees. Police in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... on Thursday said they had arrested a ten year boy carrying at least 12,000 fake voter cards. Aside from security concerns, much of the anxiety heading into Saturday's vote has surrounded suspicions of government interference and electoral fraud, in large part because of the experience of the 2009 presidential election, which was marred by irregularities. Nevertheless, enthusiasm for the upcoming vote is high, with a surge in voter registration over the past two weeks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
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| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-04-05 14:48 |
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| Posted by: Steve White 2014-04-05 13:22 |
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| Posted by: Pappy 2014-04-05 08:27 |