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9 Oct 2004
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18 presidential candidates

15 candidates signed up to boycott the results of first direct presidential election follows claims of widespread voting irregularities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3727324.stm

10:34 GMT 11:34 UK
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a "Point" Eighteen candidates are on the ballot but two withdrew this week...

18 - 15 - 2 = 1...
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. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=11&u=/nm/20041009/ts_nm/afghan_election_dc 041009
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. "The ink that is being used can be rubbed off in a minute. Voters can vote 10 times."

"I believe those who have boycotted the elections are right. I saw myself that I could easily rub the ink from our fingers,"

Farook Wardak, head of the Joint Election Management Board, said marker pens were being used in some cases instead of the indelible ink, while in other cases, the correct ink was being applied to the wrong part of the finger.

"Where the correct ink is applied it stays on,"
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109 The issue of the ink is crucial because officials had said before the vote that many people had received more than one registration card for the election by mistake. Vote organizers had argued that the indelible ink would prevent people from voting twice, even if they had more than one card.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6185037/
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