Abstract This article’s primarily focus concerns Afghanistan’s ‘democratic’ electoral processes and procedures. Fraud and other critical aspects of the 2018 election for the Wolesi Jirga, Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament, are systematically assessed and official election data and results are examined in depth. As witnessed in earlier Wolesi Jirga elections, this legislative election was duplicitous and unrepresentative. By definition, a democratic legislature serves as the voice of a country’s population. Assessing the voting results in Kabul, the largest and most important province, can summarise the problems of the election. The leading ‘vote getter’ in the Kabul Province got a mere 2.0 per cent of the vote—11,158 out of 666,478 votes cast. Twenty-six of the elected Wolesi Jirga legislators received less than 1 per cent of the vote. Only 23.5 per cent of Kabuli voters voted for a winning candidate. Overall, this article paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Afghanistan. The already restricted Afghan environment is further hindered by operational mismanagement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) throughout the electoral process. The single non-transferable voting (SNTV) system again proved to be a disaster resulting in the vast majority of Afghans voting for losing candidates and winning candidates receiving few votes.

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阿富汗 2018 年人民院选举审查：混乱、混乱和欺诈

摘要 本文主要关注阿富汗的“民主”选举过程和程序。系统评估了 2018 年阿富汗议会下院人民院选举的欺诈和其他关键方面，并深入审查了官方选举数据和结果。正如早先的人民院选举所见证的那样，这次立法选举是两面派和缺乏代表性的。顾名思义，民主立法机构是一个国家人民的代言人。评估喀布尔这个最大和最重要的省份的投票结果，可以总结选举的问题。喀布尔省领先的“得票者”仅获得 2.0% 的选票——666,478 票中的 11,158 票。Twenty-six of the elected Wolesi Jirga legislators received less than 1 per cent of the vote. 只有 23.5% 的喀布尔选民投票支持获胜的候选人。总的来说，这篇文章描绘了阿富汗民主状况的黯淡图景。在整个选举过程中，独立选举委员会 (IEC) 的运营管理不善，进一步阻碍了已经受到限制的阿富汗环境。单一的不可转让投票（SNTV）系统再次被证明是一场灾难，导致绝大多数阿富汗人为失败的候选人投票，而获胜的候选人获得的选票很少。