Looks like everyone has learned the latest in election manipulation technology. All loosing candidates have to do is claim irregularities, keep on doing it, until they force someone to talk about it. Then once the conversation has started, that becomes a PROOF that something indeed was wrong! It matters nothing that these are candidates that stood no chance of winning, not by a long shot. But the objective is to undermine the legal process and question the elected majority's credibibility. We saw how it worked in Iran. With candidates that had no chance of coming even close to the frontrunner, their supporters fillled the street. It looked like there was a nation-wide unrest, while the whole thing was a storm in a teapot. The trouble with such design is that sooner or later it attracts real troublemakers, who would trash the city for fun and profit. And then the law enforcement is faced with having to figure out the difference betweeen the looters and criminals and just democracy-loving protesters. In Afghanistan, similar story. The man who absolutely could not have won, Abudullah Abdullah, became the agreaved contender. With a straight face he complained of the irregularities. With his base among Tajik minority, it was a joke from the beginning. But not a joke to the occupiers. They needed to insure that Karzai does not win on his own, and with the alliance of tribes that would support him. That would have ended the divide et impera games in Hindu Kush. Now, with a "commission" to declare large irregularities, and whose main members were US and Canadian citizens, Karzai is forced to go into run off. And even if the occupation forces bribe half of the Pashtun "taliban" from the South, the challenger cannot win. But the objective is to limit Karzai's power, and to force him to accept "coalition", meaning occupiers' trusted hands. Communists have learned nothing. They will damage whatever is left of their reputation.