In Afghanistan, “When the elections took place voter turnout was estimated at between 1 and 5 per cent in most parts of Helmand and Kandahar–until major ballot stuffing for [incumbent President Hamid] Karzai began in the late hours of 20 August [2009]. In Babaji, a town in Helmand that had been reclaimed by British forces…only 150 people voted of the 80,000 who could have. …In another village, Zangabad, in Panjwai district in Kandahar province–which was totally controlled by the Taliban–not a single vote was cast, but 2,000 votes for Karzai were sent up to Kabul to be counted. The fraud and ballot stuffing by Karzai’s supporters was on an epic scale.”
– Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Pages 234-235