The electoral commission here announced that they would complete the audit of ballots tonight, so we may have an announcement of results and even a new president here tomorrow morning, after an election that has dragged on since April. There are a lot of jokes out there along the lines of Ghani being inaugurated in 2050 at this rate.
Yesterday on a visit to a think tank I pored over some copies of ballots that the Abdullah team had presented claiming them to be written by the same hands. I don't know what they were getting at--the handwriting looked distinctive on each of them--different ways of writings s's and n's, different angle of writing,etc--and those were the one's the team had cherry picked as examples. I was surprised actually--I'd taken it for granted that both sides in the election have been right about the other side cheating.
Yesterday on a visit to a think tank I pored over some copies of ballots that the Abdullah team had presented claiming them to be written by the same hands. I don't know what they were getting at--the handwriting looked distinctive on each of them--different ways of writings s's and n's, different angle of writing,etc--and those were the one's the team had cherry picked as examples. I was surprised actually--I'd taken it for granted that both sides in the election have been right about the other side cheating.
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