KABUL, Afghanistan — Ballots of Afghan women in conservative districts are vulnerable to fraud in August’s presidential election, the country’s top human rights official said Sunday.
"Two issues are of concern for me. First is that the right of the woman to cast her vote will not be given to her, and the second is that it’s possible that there will be serious fraud in the election by this method,” said Sima Samar, chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Samar said during the last six months of voter registration, 72 percent of those signing up in Logar were women. She said it was not "logically acceptable” that so many registrants were female.
Under Afghan law, only the person on a registration card may vote.
by the associated press
"Two issues are of concern for me. First is that the right of the woman to cast her vote will not be given to her, and the second is that it’s possible that there will be serious fraud in the election by this method,” said Sima Samar, chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Samar said during the last six months of voter registration, 72 percent of those signing up in Logar were women. She said it was not "logically acceptable” that so many registrants were female.
Under Afghan law, only the person on a registration card may vote.
by the associated press
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