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"New candidates may win half the seats in Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament amid fraud complaints that forced the scrapping of nearly a quarter of votes cast in last month’s poll, the election commission said...
"The Washington-based National Democratic Institute, which sent observers to 730 polling stations in 30 out of 34 provinces, said in a Sept. 20 report that the conduct of the ballot showed 'substantial improvement over past elections,' in part due to the removal of 6,000 officials suspected of fraud in the 2009 presidential poll and the introduction of unique serial numbers on voting slips."
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