However, the IEC material was delayed and activities conducted without IEC material.
The IEC compound is close to offices used by the UN and and other international organisations.
UN staff at the complex near the IEC were instructed to take refuge in saferooms.
But the IEC said there was no evidence of widespread irregularities.
Galbraith, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, called for the IEC to be scrapped.
But only the IEC can make such a decision.
'The IEC is satisfied because of its own difficulties that the voters there have not had a free and fair opportunity to cast their ballots,' said the IEC chairman, Johann Kriegler.
But another is up for a vote this summer by both the IEC and the European standards commission (CENELEC).
As OIC, I spoke with the chief electoral officer to urge that the IEC stick with its established procedures.
The chairman of the IEC, Azizullah Lodin, said the commission had wanted to "leave the people of Afghanistan in uncertainty" no longer.
A diplomat in Kabul observes that "the IEC is stronger, but the ECC is weaker".
