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In a further sign of disarray, one of only two Afghans on the five-member Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) abruptly resigned. The member, seen by diplomats as a supporter of Karzai, said the commissioners had been subject to foreign interference. The ECC announced the change in its rules just days before it is due to present the results of its fraud probe, which will determine whether Karzai wins in the first round or needs to face his former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, in a run-off. Under the new rules the commission will not take into account which candidate it finds benefited most from any fraud. The change effectively reverts to initial rules announced last week, which were changed mid-week after being criticized for potentially shielding Karzai. "It was our mistake in how we interpreted it. We thought we could get more granular, and it turns out that was not the case," the ECC's U.N.-appointed head Grant Kippen, a Canadian, said. In preliminary results, Karzai won 54.6 percent of the vote. In order to force a second round, the commission would have to find that fraud overwhelmingly benefited him over other candidates, reducing his share below 50 percent. The commission has ordered a recount of about a quarter of ballots, about 75 percent of which were cast for Karzai. Under the new guidelines, the commission has divided the suspicious ballots into six categories based on the reason for considering them suspect, and will disqualify the same percentage of ballots for each candidate from among those in each category. Last Wednesday the ECC said it would calculate a different fraud percentage for each candidate, so that candidates who benefited from more fraud would face a greater penalty. That would have made it easier to conclude that Karzai's supporters were far more culpable than his rivals and force a second round. Under the new rules, the commission could find more than a million fake votes and Karzai would still win squeak through. Under the rules from last Wednesday, Karzai could have faced a recount with as few as 520,000 fraudulent ballots rejected. Nevertheless, Abdullah told Reuters the commission had explained its new methodology to him, and he accepted it. "They convinced us that statistically this is the only way," he said, adding that he still expected a second round, based on reports from his staff monitoring the recount. RESIGNATION DAMAGES TRUST The ECC is the final arbiter of fraud in the election, and Western governments are counting on it to come up with a result that Afghans will accept as fair, after it found "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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