Ariana: Dermalog Company has submitted a complete report on verification of biometric votes to Independent Election Commission, IEC spokesman confirmed. IEC spokespersons Zabi Sadat said on Friday that the commission will share details of the report with media after technical assessments are done. Independent Election Commission (IEC) said that 47,000 cases of underage, duplicate photos and
Ariana: A number of Afghan senators on Tuesday called on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the election result as soon as possible. Senators also called on frontrunner candidates to avoid taking this national process toward a political deadlock. Abdul Latif Nahzatyar, a member of senate said postponement of election results will pave the way
Tolo News: The German company providing biometric devices, and now aiding with the tally of voting results, has attracted scrutiny – Naeem Ayoubzada, head of the Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), said: “Unfortunately, Dermalog is not an electoral company to know the management of the election process, secondly, if this company takes responsibility, there is
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 27, 2019 Afghanistan’s electoral authorities said preliminary results from last month’s presidential election will be delayed for weeks. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the preliminary results of the September 28 election will be announced on November 14. The preliminary results were originally meant to be released on October 19.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2019 A top U.S. official has called for patience as Afghanistan attempts to finalize counting of its September 28 election results following last weekend’s delay. Alice Wells, the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, said on October 24 after a visit to Kabul that all major
Tolo News: Lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament on Wednesday lashed out at the special units of the Afghan police forces for their alleged involvement in breaching the digital center of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), saying the move is not acceptable. The parliament speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani ordered the head of the parliament’s Internal Security Commission to
1TV: Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission said on Tuesday that the main door of its data center was opened to help two special forces of police get warm. This comes as Abdullah Abdullah’s team has claimed that the data at the digital center were altered in an organized night raid that happened in collusion with President Ashraf
1TV: Abdullah Abdullah’s camp manager claimed on Monday that police special forces conducted a raid on the Independent Election Commission’s digital center last night. Speaking at a press conference, Ali Ahmad Osmani said that the attack was not only an attack on votes for Abdullah’s team but on democracy. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Afghan presidential candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said on Sunday that an interim government must be formed before holding any future election in the country. Hekmatyar, who was addressing reporters in Kabul, claimed that as many as one million fraudulent votes were cast in favour of incumbent President Ashraf Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 16, 2019 Turnout in Afghanistan’s presidential election was already a record low, at around 26 percent. But it could sink more as election authorities sift through the votes cast in the September 28 poll. The election commission could discard more than 700,000 of the 2.7 million votes