Everyone but Karzai Boycotts Afghan Election

[Preechr]

They passed out a bunch of ballots a while ago, but some folks thought they might have some sort of value so they took more than one. It's unknown how many people did this or how widespread, but it opened up the opportunity for multiple voting for X number of people.

The solution was to have two types of ink available at each voting station, one indelible, for marking thumbs, and the other normal for filling in one's ballot. It was reported that at some stations, the workers had accidentally switched inks, and people were able to remove the ink from their thumbs which potentially opened up the voting to abuse.

I'm sure there's an easy method for determining the type of ink on each ballot, though it'll be pretty labor intensive and still imperfect, but that would at least give the candidates an idea of how widespread the problem was and allow them some data from which to make and educated decision as to whether or not the problem was abuse or random and simple election day snafus.

My working theory at this point is that Karl Rove, knowing people would blame Republicans if it looked like Karzai was being installed as head potentate of our new Afghan colony, set this whole thing up so that the abuse would be obvious and everyone would know it was just a big frame job by the Democrats.

This has got Karl Rove written all over it.