A U.N.–backed panel has found that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's August election victory was marred by nearly 1 million fraudulent votes. A runoff election between Karzai and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has been scheduled for Nov. 7. UCLA has experts.

 

Nushin Arbabzadah, a visiting scholar at the UCLA International Institute's Center for India and South Asia, is an Afghan journalist who studies media, politics and society in contemporary Afghanistan. She can be reached at arbabzadah@international.ucla.edu. 

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