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Afghanistan's election commission said today that President Hamid Karzai continues to hold a wide lead over the former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. But the results continue to be clouded by reports of fraud, which have increased substantially in recent days.

Karin von Hippel, a senior fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, just returned from monitoring the elections in Afghanistan as part of NDI's delegation. She speaks with Daljit Dhaliwal about how the security situation affected the vote.

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