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...last resort, soldiers from the Afghan army started going door to door with ballots, a practice that could easily be mistaken as a coercive tactic in favor of the current government. International and independent Afghanistan observers worry that the lack of voters could open the way to fraud: corrupt officials might use the names and registration numbers of voters who didn't turn up with little fear of being caught. And with such a low turnout, even clean-winning candidates are unlikely to have a powerful mandate. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...society like Afghanistan. Many suspect that men falsely registered fictitious wives and daughters in order to collect extra voting cards that could in turn be used to stuff ballot boxes. Few of the women's stations were monitored, which raises further questions. "I think people know there will be fraud, but what can we do?" asks Zahir of the Ministry of Finance. "Even if we all have ink on our fingers, it doesn't matter, because at the end of the day, officials will be adding ballots that are not from the people." When asked why he was even bothering...
...Candace Rondeaux, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group, says the insecurity and questions about the value of the vote "given the potential for fraud has kept a number of voters from the polls." A low turnout will do "little to enhance the sense that all Afghans are included in the democratic process," Rondeaux says. "It also raises the possible threat that the incumbent's main rivals will question the results and perhaps encourage a violent response, leaving open a window for the Taliban to fully disrupt Afghanistan's progress." (Watch a video on the Afghanistan election...
...Clinic have demonstrated the promise of high-quality, low-cost care, and mounds of research as well as books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste, fraud and abuse. And the most prominent town-hall angle of attack against Obamacare has been its alleged scheme to let government bureaucrats pull the plug on Grandma, refuse to treat handicapped children and otherwise ration care, so again, it's easy to see why the Administration has soft-pedaled...
...meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called the title the "top of the food chain" in sports - was ensnared in the BALCO steroid scandal and stripped of his record. He is currently serving time in an Alabama prison for bank fraud and heroin distribution...