Documents released today by Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission showed:
A mosque in Khak I Safeid, in Farah, was one of more than 30 polling stations where 100% of the valid votes went to one candidate. One vote did go to another candidate, but it was marked as invalid.
Some polling stations showed competing vote-rigging. At Faselahcompound in Zarghoon Shaher, Paktika province, all the votes showed identical markings, none of the ballots was folded, and all 600 votes went to one candidate – but they were recorded as votes for someone else.
Turnout was suspiciously high at a number of stations. At a polling station at a religious school in Ghazni province, 1,055 votes with 100% uniform markings were cast in a polling station that served an estimated 1,400 people.
At a number of stations, several tactics were used to rig the vote. At Mirajan House, in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, 75% of the papers showed uniform markings, none of the ballots was folded and some were placed in the wrong bundles and counted for other candidates; and a unusually high number of women were declared to have cast their vote.
In almost a third of the sample (92 polling stations), 100% of the papers had uniform markings. Another 69 polling stations recorded 75% of the ballots showing uniform markings.
In 41 polling stations, all ballot papers were unfolded.