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       Abdullah Threatens to Withdraw from Afghan Presidential Vote Audit

   by VOA News

   Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has threatened to pull
   out of the U.N.-supervised auditing process of June's disputed runoff
   election, further complicating efforts to resolve the standoff.

   A senior member of Abdullah's campaign team, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, told
   reporters Tuesday auditors have not shown a willingness to throw out
   votes that the candidate's team views as fraudulent.

   Manawi called the process a "joke," saying Abdullah would withdraw by
   Wednesday morning local time if the concerns were not addressed.

   Auditors are in their final stages of examining the eight million votes
   cast during the June 14 run-off between Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani.
   Though preliminary votes suggested Ghani finished well ahead of
   Abdullah, both claimed to have won the election.

   The audit is part of a deal mediated by U.S. Secretary of State John
   Kerry and supervised by the United Nations. Washington had hoped the
   process would be complete, and a new president inaugurated, by the end
   of this month.
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