"Harry Krause" wrote in message

Polling irregularities mar historic Afghan election

BY TOD ROBBERSON

The Dallas Morning News

"...plagued by fraud..."??

"polling irregularities"??

Those Afghan elections ran remarkably smoothly. They were not plagued by
fraud or irregularities, they were plagued [in some places] by the wrong ink
for thumb markers! I did a lot of work in Afghanistan many years ago, and
this sort of thing is commonplace, and not necessarily;y indicative of
chicanery.

As an aside, I happened to be listening to Air America last night, and they
were spreading the story as hard fact that the ink question in Afghanistan
had to do with the printing on the official ballots being erasable. Clearly
either unprofessional or unethical or, likely, both.