{"id":79346,"date":"2018-10-28T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/special-pen-used-to-alter-election-results\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:59:10","slug":"special-pen-used-to-alter-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/special-pen-used-to-alter-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Special pen used to alter election results\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"562\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/28\/TEFA.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan claimed on Sunday rampant rigging took place in the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections last week.<\/p>\n<p>Naeem Ayubzada, chief executive of the TEFA, shared the findings into alleged rigging at a press conference today. He said findings by TEFA indicate a special pen has been used to erase vote casted in favor of certain candidates for the rigging purpose. He said this pen has been found in a polling station in Sarobi.<\/p>\n<p>Ayubzada claimed the pen has been used to change the results. The TEFA chief executive went on to say sorting out genuine and fake votes is a daunting task, and the delay in this process is deliberate for political reasons. He charged elements within the government for seeking political gains in this process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shema Aalam Sarosh, deputy spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, told Salam Watandar the voters&rsquo; list is an authentic document to sort out fake votes from the genuine ones.<\/p>\n<p>The TEFA has said the weak management displayed by the IEC during the WJ polls indicate the forthcoming presidential elections might not take place on time.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan claimed on Sunday rampant rigging took place in the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}