Increasingly credible allegations of vote fraud were the topic of conversation Monday night for a meeting between U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, U.N. officials and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, senior State Department officials said.
A man walks past a billboard with a photo of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on September 6, 2009.
Eikenberry and the U.N. officials urged Karzai to allow Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission to thoroughly investigate vote fraud and determine which votes are accurate and then apply a very high standard to determine which votes are counted.
Once that is determined, Election Commission officials would determine if a runoff is necessary. Eikenberry spoke to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about his meeting with Karzai later in the day, the officials said.
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