{"id":10444,"date":"2009-08-20T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:27:48","slug":"gareth-porter-karzai-and-warlords-mount-massive-vote-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10444","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Porter: Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=48142\">Analysis by Gareth Porter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) &#8211; Afghanistan&#8217;s presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have planned to commit large-scale electoral fraud that could have the opposite effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two U.S.-financed polls published during the past week showed support for Karzai falls well short of the 51 percent of the vote necessary to avoid a runoff election. A poll by Glevum Associates showed Karzai at 36 percent, and a survey by the International Republican Institute had him at 44 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Those polls suggest that Karzai might have to pad his legitimate vote total by much as 40 percent to be certain of being elected in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=48142\">Read the report <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/08\/hbc-90005564\">h\/t<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Jason Ditz: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2009\/08\/18\/just-in-time-for-election-afghanistan-introduces-sweeping-new-censorship\/\">Just in Time for Election: Afghanistan Introduces Sweeping New Censorship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) &#8211; Afghanistan&#8217;s presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}