{"id":190863,"date":"2009-10-19T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/un-fraud-inquiry-calls-for-runoff-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:11:00","slug":"un-fraud-inquiry-calls-for-runoff-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/un-fraud-inquiry-calls-for-runoff-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Fraud Inquiry Calls for Runoff in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/oct\/19\/un-monitor-strips-karzai-victory\">the ECC threw out nearly <sup>1<\/sup>\/<sub>3<\/sub> of the ballots cast for Karzai<\/a>, and the US government is saying that it cannot make a decision about more troops until the matter is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that Karzai will accept a runoff, and that he will probably win, as he has extensive support from the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, as well as a bureaucracy that will be firmly supporting him in the balloting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out that the ECC threw out nearly 1\/3 of the ballots cast for Karzai, and the US government is saying that it cannot make a decision about more troops until the matter is resolved. My guess is that Karzai will accept a runoff, and that he will probably win, as he has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}