[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 794 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 794

   Calling for a runoff election in Afghanistan between the two top 
                               finishers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 1, 2009

Mr. Rohrabacher (for himself, Mr. Delahunt, and Mr. Burton of Indiana) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Calling for a runoff election in Afghanistan between the two top 
                               finishers.

Whereas nearly one in four votes in last month's Afghan presidential elections 
        were cast at polling stations now subject to a recount and audit for 
        possible fraud;
Whereas approximately one-third of Mr. Karzai's 3,100,000 votes were cast at 
        polling stations that face a recount and audit of ballot boxes;
Whereas based on the criteria set by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), 
        a United Nations backed Afghan and international panel that is the 
        ultimate arbiter of the election, almost 3,000 of the 23,000 polling 
        stations would be subject to the fraud review;
Whereas those polling stations account for a large proportion of ballots, some 
        1,350,000 of 5,660,000 total votes;
Whereas the ECC said that it had found ``clear and convincing evidence of fraud 
        in a number of polling stations'' in the southern and eastern provinces;
Whereas the analysis also shows that slightly more than a quarter million of Mr. 
        Karzai's votes came from polling stations where he received exactly 600 
        ballots and no other candidate received a single vote;
Whereas, on September 10, 2009, the ECC ordered the invalidation of certain 
        ballots from 51 polling stations in Kandahar province and from 27 
        polling stations in Ghazni province, and ordered the International 
        Election Commission (IEC) to invalidate results from 5 polling stations 
        in Paktika province;
Whereas between the election on August 20, 2009, and September 8, 2009, the ECC 
        has received a total of 2,842 election complaints; and
Whereas Grant Kippen, a Canadian and the chairman of the ECC, said the 
        irregularities found include ballots not being folded, meaning they 
        would not fit in a ballot box slot, identically marked ballots, and 
        overly large counts at polling stations: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls for a runoff 
election between the two top finishers.
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