"In any election there will be irregularities, but these unexplained exclusions corrupted the entire process," said Sheik Abdul Carimo, spokesman for the Electoral Observatory, a coalition of religious and civic groups that monitors elections.
Almost everyone involved in the presidential election Saturday — a chance at the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in Afghanistan's history — acknowledges that there again will be irregularities.
There will be electoral irregularities, fraud, and violence, but the first-round vote went much better than expected, in terms of turnout, electoral organisation, security and acceptance by the candidates of the results.
A new app that lets voters flag polling-place irregularities will be tested at the primaries on Thursday and, if it works well, will be rolled out citywide for the November general election.
Rent-Way Inc., a leading operator of rent-to-own stores, said yesterday that downward noncash adjustments to its earnings, related to an investigation of accounting irregularities, will be $127 million, well above previous company estimates.
"President Zuma's congratulations are not only extremely premature, given the very serious irregularities that have been noted in the elections, but shamefully legitimise undemocratic practices during elections, and send a message that significant irregularities will be tolerated by his administration".
To avoid further damage to their reputations, and to minimise the risk that they will be sued over accounting irregularities, audit firms are adopting the most prudent possible interpretation of the Section 404 rules rules that are vague and open to argument.
The information derived at the level of these irregularities will be exploited in order to derive a spectrum sensing algorithm.
You may want a monitor that lets you know when the person leaves the house or gets up in the morning so that you will be aware of any irregularities.
This irregularity will be generated under normal EEJ conditions only when both the vertical polarization electric field and the vertical electron density gradient are parallel and they can be observed by the VHF backscatter radars by the strong scattered echoes (Devasia et al. 2006).
In search of a scapegoat, overcrowding will be blamed, as well as irregularities in the construction of the nightclub.
