The Afghanistan Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Saturday that it would recount ballots from more than 8,000 polling stations - almost a third of the total - due to what it called discrepancies in their system. "Abdullah's camp is afraid of the recount because they would lose," Daoud Sultanzoy, a senior Ghani campaign leader, told Reuters. Preliminary results scheduled for later this week might be delayed again, according to two officials at the election commission who declined to be named as they are not authorised to speak publicly about the count. The result was originally due out on Oct 19, but slow work on data entry and tackling extensive voter fraud delayed the announcement. Ghani and Abdullah had both claimed victory before the ballots were tallied.

Source: bd News24 November 11, 2019 04:16 UTC