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            Afghanistan to Announce Election Audit Results on Sunday

   by VOA News

   Afghan election officials say they have completed an audit of ballots
   cast in the June 14 election and will release the results on Sunday.

   The announcement should bring the country's more than five-month-long
   election process to a close.

   The two candidates, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, both
   say they won the election.  They have been negotiating a power-sharing
   agreement that would divide responsibilities between the president and
   the newly-created office of chief executive.

   Abdullah won the most votes in the initial election in April, but did
   not manage a majority, forcing a second round of voting in June.  Ghani
   won the runoff, but Abdullah protested the results claiming widespread
   fraud.  Under U.S. pressure, the two candidates had agreed to the
   U.N.-backed vote recount.
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