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June 16th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has voiced concerns over what he called “engineered fraud” in the recent presidential election run-off, questioning the official voter turnout figure in the election.
“When the commission (Independent Election Commission) announced that the turnout is over seven million people, there is no collaborating evidence at all throughout the country. That is something that is questionable and what we are concerned about is once again engineered fraud,” Abdullah said on Sunday.
According to Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani, the chairman of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC), almost 7 million people or some 60 percent of eligible voters participated in the second round of the election. Twelve million Afghans were eligible to vote.
Abdullah also called for removal of head of the IEC secretariat from his post and an investigation in this regard adding: ” This is a decision that we have taken; since we don’t trust any neutral body in this respect, we are asking for the presence of our own representative during those investigations.”
Abdullah also complained that his election observers “were beaten and jailed” in some provinces of the country, and said his observers were not even given complaint forms to fill in.
The UN had earlier called on Abdullah and his rival Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai to give election officials time to conduct the vote count and investigate fraud allegations.
The Electoral Complaints Commission said it had registered over 270 complaints by Sunday morning.
The final result is scheduled for July 22. The winner will succeed President Hamid Karzai, who has been in power since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
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