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"Afghanistan's election authorities are being pressured by President Hamid Karzai and by Iran to alter the preliminary results of September's parliamentary races, adding new controversy to a fraud-marred election, officials and candidates say...

"'The ECC has to be very transparent; that's the challenge they struggle with every day,' says Andy Campbell, the Afghanistan director for the National Democratic Institute, which monitored the Sept. 18 polls."

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