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People Will Never Surrender to a Big Fraud

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

By Jamqobad Shola
On the heels of the expanding of the premeditated fraud organized by the Karzai camp in the presidential elections, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the elections’ frontrunner, on Tuesday, in a press conference, presented to the local and foreign press, video and audio evidence and documentation of this organized fraud.  Dr. Abdullah said “As a candidate I give assurances to all those people of Afghanistan who under very harsh conditions and many dangers, distributed the call of ‘change and hope’ to the entire nation, and who, on the Election Day showed their courage and went to the polls. I give assurances to them that their vote and trust will in no way be wasted and never will there be deal making on their vote and trust. Every Afghan, every individual of our nation, has the right to feel, to know the result of his/her vote.”   
He cited the collected items of evidence as demonstrating a large and systematic fraud and asked the Election Complaints Commission, the international observer institutions and the international community to defend the vote of the Afghan people, which assures the political and social life of the country.  In his opinion, preventing a pre-organized fraud can lead to a clear and transparent election.
The documents and evidence items that he showed in the press conference are:

  1. A number of ballot sheets that have not been torn from their booklet but are still attached to the booklet, tick marked for Karzai and stamped. 
  2. A documented video of several people sitting in a room and tick marking blank ballot sheets for Karzai.
  3. A number of ballots in favor of Dr. Abdullah, thrown out of the ballot box.
  4. A number of photos of the process of tick marking for Karzai.

It should be mentioned that this evidence was from only the district of Andar in Ghazni province. But such fraud is still going on elsewhere.

Dr. Abdullah, at the end of the press conference responded to reporters’ questions and added “It is appropriate to defend and support the people who accepted thousands of challenges and went to the ballot boxes, and with thousands of hopes voted for the candidate they wanted, it is appropriate to support their ideas and their dreams and wishes. We in cooperation with the world community and institutions who believe likewise must say no to this fraud, this anti-national activity, and seek the salvation and destiny of the nation in the prevention of such games that deceive the people.”