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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Monday announced transferring over 1.7 million biometric votes so far to its main server.
IEC Commissioner Rahima Zarifi told reporters here so far 1,737,078 biometric votes from 22,588 voting booths had been transferred to the central server while votes from 4,000 more booths were processed and being transferred to the central server.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): The number of people who took part in last month’s presidential election was 48 percent less than those voted in last year's parliamentary election in northern Samangan province.
The presidential election was held on September 28 and parliamentary election was conducted in October 2018. Results of the presidential election are yet to be announced.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations on Sunday asked all stakeholders and actors to demonstrate their commitment to completing the presidential election process in a credible manner
Election bodies, political parties, the government, candidates and their supporters were urged to protect the integrity of the process, especially with regard to tabulating and announcing the results.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Two election oversight institutes on Thursday claimed a number of election commissioners and secretaries of election bodies and their advisors had been in contact with presidential candidates and they should be put in quarantine for that reason.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Ibrahim Alokozai, a former presidential election hopeful, on Tuesday said predicting presidential election results amounted to disobeying the law, urged candidates to wait for the election bodies’ decision in this regard.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Reports regarding the hacking of computers’ server of the Independent Election Commission (

KABUL (Pajhwok): A member of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday said the process of transferring data from biometric devices to the central system was going slow, so it would not be possible to announce primary election results on October 19, if the situation continued.
Based on the election schedule, the primary results of September 28 presidential election should be announced on October 19.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Several video clips of alleged election rigging have been slammed as an effort to denigrate presidential wannabes.

The authorities concerned, who have invalidated non-biometric votes cast in Saturday’s election, have promised to investigate the videos.

Videos of people marking ballot papers in support of a particular runner and putting them into ballot boxes recently went viral on social media.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has already said non-biometric votes are invalid.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the absence of election observers, saying electoral materials from 93 percent of districts have reached provincial capitals.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Different voter turnout figures from southern Kandahar province have raised questions, causing cynicism among psephologists.

The figures announced by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) head office and its provincial branch are starkly different, analysis claim.

A number of experts and the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) emphasise on an exact turnout figure. They argue different numbers may lead to rigging.