The Free and Fair Election Foundation (FEF) of Afghanistan termed the outlook of the Saturday's parliamentary election as "extensive irregularities" and urged the IEC "to ensure the integrity of the rest of the electoral process". Some of the monitoring groups also raised serious concerns about electoral fraud. The FEF's Nader Nadery told the BBC it was to be welcomed that more people had voted than expected and that casualties from attacks were lower than anticipated. But he said there were many problems with the indelible ink used to stop multiple voting, with proxy votes, interference by local power brokers and with a large amount of intimidation. Meanwhile, the bodies of three members of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) kidnapped in Balkh province during voting on Saturday have been recovered. Taliban militants had vowed to disrupt the vote for the lower houses of parliament. The discovery of the bodies means at least 17 peopl...
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