Shocking Voter Fraud Allegations

Yesterday the Washington Post revealed staggering allegations of voter fraud in the August 20th presidential elections that would make Tammany Hall blush.
The U.N apparently kept a spreadsheet on election day that contrasted the number of voters their observers estimated at polling locations with the number of votes actually cast. The spreadsheet demonstrates a widespread fraud, which Peter Gailbraith accused Kai Eide of shoving under the rug.

For example, in southern Helmand province, where our troops are hopelessly patrolling poppy fields in search of Taliban insurgents, 134,804 votes were recorded, 112,873 of them for President Hamid Karzai. The U.N estimates, however, have just 38,000 people voting in southern Helmund, and "possibly as few as 5,000." In Paktika province, 193,541 votes were cast for Karzai, despite estimates that only 35,000 people voted. In Kandahar, Karzai racked up 221,436 votes, out of the 100,000 or so people that voted.

Although Karzai's chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, was probably involved in some shenanigans himself, there is no evidence it was anywhere near this scale. Finally, if overcounting is this widespread, then overall turnout numbers were probably significantly lower than the already 30% that the international community was so disappointed in. Last week, the Gailbraith fall-out led to two more U.N political officials in Afghanistan resigning in protest. Expect this scandal to get worse following this Washington Post story.