Summary
Election officials overseeing Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power sifted through scores of fraud complaints Sunday as they began a lengthy vote count, after insurgents killed at least 50 people on polling day.
The final result in the runoff presidential election is not due for several weeks, and international concerns have focused on the risk of a disputed outcome as the two candidates started to trade fraud allegations.
More than 50 people were killed in separate Taliban strikes Saturday, officials said, when more than 7 million voters cast their ballot in the contest between former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani.
The 2009 election, when outgoing President Hamid Karzai retained power, was marred by massive fraud that shook the U.S.-led international effort to develop Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 .
Abdullah got 45 percent of the vote in April with Ghani on 31.6 percent.
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