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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Rights chief warns of Afghan vote fraud By JASON STRAZIUSO,Associated Press Writers AP - Monday, May 4 KABUL - A top human rights official voiced fears Sunday of vote fraud in August's presidential election as violence also threatening Afghanistan's fragile democracy rumbled on, with a market bombing that killed four. ADVERTISEMENT The bomb was placed on a bicycle in a busy market in Gereshk district of southern Helmand province. Doud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor, said a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl were among the dead. Homemade bombs are typically aimed at Afghan officials or international troops, but the majority of victims are Afghan civilians. The U.S. military says 1,800 Afghans were killed or wounded in bomb attacks last year. Such violence threatens to overshadow the Aug. 20 election, the second presidential vote since the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime by U.S.-backed forces in 2001. The chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said Sunday she was worried about the potential for fraud when it came to participation _ or non participation _ by Afghan women in the vote. Giving an example, Sima Samar said that during the last six months of voter registration, 72 percent of those signing up in Logar _ a province south of Kabul _ were women. She said it was not "logically acceptable" that so many registrants were female. In conservative provinces, where it is rare for women to travel outside their villages or even their family compounds, male relatives often register the women as voters, which Samar said left the process open to fraud. "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," Samar told a news conference. She said officials saw higher-than-expected registration of women in Paktika, Paktia and Khost provinces as well. According to Afghan law, only the person on a registration card may cast a vote. But Samar said that in the country's 2004 presidential election there were reports of one person casting multiple votes in the name of other family members. The top U.N. representative in the country, Kai Eidi, who spoke alongside Samar, said there was "no doubt that there are irregularities" stemming from the registration process, but that no one knows how significant they are. He called for elections to be transparent and credible "so the result reflects the will of the Afghan people." The two-week period for presidential candidates to register ends May 8. So far no candidates have registered who could seriously challenge President Hamid Karzai, who is seeking a new five-year term. One potential contender, Nangarhar province Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai, pulled out Saturday. Meanwhile, the U.S.-led coalition reported two days of fighting in a rugged region of eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan in which American fighter aircraft and U.S. and Afghan ground forces killed 19 suspected militants. The fighting began when militants attacked an Afghan combat outpost and killed three American soldiers, two from Latvia and four Afghan solders, deaths the military reported on Friday. The Afghan Defense Ministry said hundreds of militants had massed in Kunar. In response, Afghan and coalition forces carried out counterattacks that killed 19 militants, said Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. military spokeswoman. The U.S. coalition said after the militant attack that a U.S.-Afghan force returned fire and called for fighter aircraft, killing seven suspected militants. Other militants repositioned on a ridge, and fighter aircraft killed 12 more, the coalition said in a statement late Saturday. Violence is expected to rise in the coming months. President Barack Obama has ordered an additional 21,000 U.S. troops to join the 38,000 already in Afghanistan. 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