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"Transparency and national security are among the urgent needs for the runoff elections scheduled for Nov. 7 in Afghanistan, [NDI] said.

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"US envoy Richard Holbrooke said Friday he expected fewer problems with the November 7 presidential run-off election in Afghanistan than with the fraud-tainted first round in August.

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Both the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, U.S.-based democracy support NGOs who sent observers to the initial round of voting, cite a need for enhanced security, better monitoring at each station and greater regulation of the use of state resources for campaigning.

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The Afghan government, international forces -- and the Taliban -- began preparations for the Nov. 7 presidential runoff, even as Western officials also continued advocating a power-sharing compromise to avoid the problems of a second round of voting.

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Election authorities in Afghanistan began delivering ballots with U.N. assistance across Afghanistan on Thursday, as hurried preparations for the Nov. 7 runoff in the insurgency-plagued nation's presidential election got under way.