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Fraud surrounds women voters in Afghan election

October 30, 2009 By The Associated Press HEIDI VOGT (Associated Press Writer)

KABUL (AP) — One man cast 35 votes for female relatives. Others lugged in sacks full of voting cards they said were from women. And in a village of just 250 people, 200 women supposedly voted in three hours.

In Afghanistan's recent presidential election in August, one of the ripest areas for fraud was women's voting. And the same is likely to be true again in the Nov. 7 runoff between President...

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