AfPak Channel: Grading the AfPak experts
Now that the second round of elections has been canceled and Hamid Karzai officially declared the winner of Afghanistan fraud-riddled ballot, it's time to assess how the AfPak Channel's experts did when they informally predicted the results of the presidential election the day before the August 20 polling in a parlor game we dubbed "The AfPak Crystal Ball."
After the fraud audit reduced Karzai's share of the vote by some one third of his ballots, the incumbent president was left with 49.7 percent, according to official results from the Independent Election Commission. Challenger Abdullah Abdullah wound up with 30.6 percent, and Ramazan Bashardost came in third place with 10.5 percent of the August 20 ballot. And according to the United States Assistance Mission to Afghanistan and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, one third of registered voters turned out to cast their ballots...
