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Media Archive - September
   
09/27/2005
As counting for this year's landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections was in full swing across Afghanistan the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced partial results for the first eight provinces to complete counting ballot papers from at least ten per cent of their polling stations. Read more in English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/27/2005
Two election officials working for the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) returned safely to the Badakshan capital, Feyzabad September 24 after having completed a 18 day round trip trek by jeep, horse and walking to deliver election materials to polling stations in Pamir Khord, a remote area of Wakhan in Badakshan province. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/25/2005
As counting for this year's landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections continued across Afghanistan the Joint Election Management Body (JEMB) announced the first partial results for three provinces, Uruzgan, Farah and Nimroz. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/20/2005 The task of counting millions of ballot papers for Afghanistan 's landmark Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections began today September 20. Ballot papers will be counted at thirty four provincial Count Centres in thirty two provincial centres. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/09/2005 The intake of millions of ballots and polling materials is well under way across Afghanistan after Sunday's elections for the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of National Assembly) and Provincial Councils. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/18/2005 Polls closed across Afghanistan at 4.00pm Sunday after 10 hours of calm and steady voting in the country's first post-conflict legislative elections. Read more in... English
   
09/18/2005
Voters flocked to thousands of polling stations across Afghanistan early Sunday to cast ballots in Afghanistan's landmark first post-conflict legislative elections. Read more in... English | Pashto
   
09/18/2005 Following a decision by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) to re-instate Zabul Wolesi Jirga candidate, Mawen Nazer Mohammad, the Joint Election Management Body confirmed that he will be eligible for election. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/18/2005 Polls opened across Afghanistan from 6.00 am Sunday, heralding the next major step in Afghanistan's progress to democracy after a quarter century of conflict. Read more in... English
   
09/16/2005
Since the publication of the Certified Candidate List on July 12 and subsequent printing of ballot papers, five (5) candidates have died and twenty nine (29) candidates have been removed by the Electoral Complaints Commission. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/12/2005 In less than a week, 12.5 million Afghans will have their first opportunity in more than three decades to elect a national legislature and 34 Provincial Councils, and thereby complete Afghanistan 's transition to democracy as mapped out by the Bonn peace process of December 2001.
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09/11/2005

Reports circulating in some media alleging that JEMBS elections staff issued fake voter registration cards are incorrect. The JEMB wishes to clarify that in separate cases two former district-level election workers are being investigated by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) over allegations that they each stole between 100 and 262 blank voter registration cards.
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09/07/2005 As Afghanistan's Kuchi (nomad) community undertakes its annual migration to lower grounds ahead of the approaching winter, they will be able to stop at any of 1,616 Kuchi polling stations across the country to cast votes in the September 18 Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of National Assembly) elections. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/07/2005 Polling for the September 18 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections will begin at 6.00 am across Afghanistan, one hour earlier than originally planned. Read more in... English | Dari | Pashto
   
09/03/2005 The Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat will launch a daily television election program this weekend on RTA state-run television. The "Witness Program" will be broadcast nightly after the 7.00 pm Dari News and 8.00 pm Pashto news, starting Saturday September 3.
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