Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the country acknowledged Sunday that widespread electoral fraud had occurred.

But the official, Kai Eide, strongly contested allegations by his former deputy that he had engaged in a cover-up of vote-rigging by supporters of President Hamid Karzai.

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