Political Corruption in Afghanistan Elections
Political corruption is the cancer of a society. It breaks down the fiber of the economy, the moral of the people and the reputation of any given country wherein the leaders go about conduction their transactions in immoral and unjust ways. This happens in the form of bribery and favors, in the prevention of the citizens access to the voting booths and in paying off politicians for votes and signatures on legislative bills.
One such case was recently investigated by the United Nations, and involve and election in Afghanistan that was suspected of being fraudulent and corrupted. The investigative team spent hours late into the night last Thursday in the attempts to determining if a runoff election is necessary. The suspicion lies within the fact that some of the polling stations reported a one hundred percent turnout of voters, which is highly unlikely in any political election, as well as the majority of those votes votes going to particular and singular clients.
Over three thousand stations were audited last Thursday, and these numbers are still be added up and analyzed, and individual cases of fraud are also being investigated. Most analysts agree that it is most likely that there will be a runoff election in about two weeks, but the impending winter snow storms and the public unrest and the public insecurities may cause low attendance at the polls.
This is one of the many effects of political corruption, people will waver on the edge of just giving up. Government officials state that both sides, the current President Hamid Karzai and his contender Abdullah Abdullah, should be willing to agree to a re-election. In this way, to agree to this would serve to reinstate the public confidence and the reputation of the Government of Afghanistan and to the legitimacy of the character of current President Karzai.
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