From: jeff 

Adam Flinton wrote:
> Geo wrote:
>
>> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>> news:419de2b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>
>>> Basically the vote broke down into ethnic groups voting for
"their"
>>> warlord with Karzai getting the Pashtun & Baluchi vote,
Qanooni getting
>>> the Tajik vote, Mohaqiq getting the Hazara vote & Dostum getting the
>>> Uzbek vote.
>>
>>
>>
>> You know, amazing as it seems that sounds like standard politics to
>> me. 
>>
>> Geo. (I'm going to mark Afghanistan in the success column now)
>>
>>
> It depends on wether your local pols use weapons etc to encourage "voter
> participation" where participation means vote for the man with his
> gunmen in close proximity to the voting station...
>
> Adam

Which, apparently, did not happen.

Sorry Adam, you're just going to have to be disappointed that it wasn't an
unmitigated disaster.

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