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Afghanistan is scrambling to prepare for a Nov. 7 runoff vote to resolve the political stalemate following the blatant rigging of the August presidential election...
The fallout from the first election could possibly shame the two leading candidates into behaving better.
“Neither wins anything if the overall process is delegitimized,” says Patrick Merloe, a senior associate at the National Democratic Institute, which sent a team of observers to the August election. “The two people competing for power here have the most to gain from instructing their people and signaling to the public that they won't tolerate fraudulent behavior.”
