Afghans Forged Votes Amid Lethal Violence

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KABUL—The Taliban warned voters they might be killed in the event that they went to the polls. The federal government didn’t open polling stations on time, and there have been widespread accounts of poll shortages, unprepared election employees and breakdowns of much-hailed biometric units meant to forestall voter fraud.

By dusk, not less than 27 civilians and 9 safety forces had been lifeless and greater than 100 individuals wounded in election-related violence throughout the…