There is standing tension between the Afghan-run Election Commission, which counted the ballots, and the U.N.-backed Complaints Commission, which invalidated the fraudulent ballots.

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In the first round, more than a million ballots, most of them for Mr.Karzai, were declared fraudulent by the U.N.-run Election Complaints Commission, depriving Mr.Karzai of what he claimed was an outright electoral victory.

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The Election Complaints Commission, a U.N.-funded watchdog, is ordering all ballots from suspect polling stations recounted and audited.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

PML-N's ambitious election manifesto pledges to double economic growth from the 3% seen in recent years, hugely increase tax revenue and damp inflation.

WSJ: Pakistan Election Gets a Seal of Approval

U.N. support for an election system could help provide justification in the eyes of Iraqis.

CNN: U.N. help sought on Iraq vote

The sleeper absentee-ballot lawsuit from Seminole County or Gore's unprecedented challenge to the presidential election results before Judge N.

CNN: May It Please The Court