Afghan voter fraud - - is anyone surprised?

Afghanistan's leading election watchdog expressed deepening alarm Sunday at reports it was amassing of vote-rigging and bloodshed that claimed at least two dozen lives in the nation's second legislative election since the 2001 U.S. invasion.

With elections officials beginning the laborious process of certifying votes in the closely watched races, independent observers raised new warnings about the scale of fraud, intimidation and unrest that could undermine the credibility of the new Parliament.

"We are more concerned because we are collecting more information," said Nader Nadery, head of the Free and Fair Election Foundation, a coalition of civic groups that fielded some 7,000 observers during Saturday's elections to the 249-seat lower house of Parliament.

Nadery, whose organization alleged extensive ballot-stuffing and security problems almost immediately after the polls closed Saturday, declined to elaborate on the new data that the group is reviewing until a news conference set for Monday.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/19/1832705/afghan-election-watchdog-amasses.html

Don't be surprised by voter fraud in Afghanistan. It's what they do.

The only surprises are that any one's surprised, and that our successful "anti war" presidential candidate has increased America's commitment to that corrupt dangerous hellhole.