"Extensive Fraud Appears to Mar Afghan Election" (front page, Sept. 25) says lawmakers and opposition candidates accused me of "fixing the elections for a list of favored candidates".
I also asked Carr about the possibility of fixing national elections.
The parties already accuse Mr. Musharraf — who is widely unpopular according to public opinion polls — of fixing the elections.
A former city attorney accused the clerk of fixing the election in favor of candidates, including Crespo, supported by Maria Chacon.
Lawmakers and opposition candidates openly accused the Karzais, and in particular Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful official in Kandahar, of fixing the election for a list of favored candidates.
Their boycott, and the reasons for it, have shrunk the chances of bringing the chaos and bloodshed of the past seven years to a negotiated end.The six candidates who dropped out accuse the pouvoir the generals and senior politicians who run Algeria's affairs of fixing the elections in favour of the one who remained, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Publicly vilified, the CNE directors were obliged to resign.The task of fixing a fresh election date, and the composition of a new CNE directorate, was back in the hands of the interim legislature (popularly known as the congresillo, the little congress, a slimmed-down offshoot of Mr Chavez's original constituent assembly) and of its chairman, Luis Miquilena.
Last week a single judge unseated the mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, for fixing his re-election in May 2014.
What Congress should do, instead of diverting attention and resources to fixing election night coverage, is to fix the democratic process that was exposed as shamefully imperfect in this election.
