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 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Election authorities have fired about 50 employees for suspected fraud in last month's legislative polls, officials said Sunday, casting a shadow on Afghanistan's latest step toward democracy.
Some 680 ballot boxes, about 3 percent of votes, have been taken out of the counting process because of suspicions that they were stuffed, said Richard Atwood, chief of operations for the joint U.N.-Afghan election commission. He said "approximately 50" employees had been fired.
But he ruled out a recount, saying, "the fraud that has occurred does not affect the integrity of the election."
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