Chief Electoral Officer Daoud Ali Najafi informed reporters of the vote totals.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Asked at a press conference in Kabul why the criteria for quarantined votes has changed from 600 per ballot box to more than 1,000,chief electoral officer Daoud Ali Najafi says the ECC just made this decision and the Afghan government's Independent Election Commission agreed to it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The state's chief electoral officer, Umesh Sinha, says he is working to change that.

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Mr Bain has a long track record as a senior civil servant and Northern Ireland's former chief electoral officer.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Mr Gould, who is the former assistant chief electoral officer of Canada, was allowed, along with his team, to scrutinise the rejected ballot papers.

BBC: Ballot papers were scanned by vote-counting machines