It is too late, o New York Times: you did declare the Afghan election a success

"Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded toward the president’s re-election, according to senior Western and Afghan officials here. The fake sites, as many as 800, existed only on paper, said a senior Western diplomat in Afghanistan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the political delicacy of the vote. Local workers reported that hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of votes for Mr. Karzai in the election last month came from each of those places. That pattern was confirmed by another Western official based in Afghanistan. “We think that about 15 percent of the polling sites never opened on Election Day,” the senior Western diplomat said. “But they still managed to report thousands of ballots for Karzai.” Besides creating the fake sites, Mr. Karzai’s supporters also took over approximately 800 legitimate polling centers and used them to fraudulently report tens of thousands of additional ballots for Mr. Karzai, the officials said." I am sorry Carlotta Gall. I don't mean to bother you: but you were the one who wrote an article with a flashing headline that the Afghan election was a success. And the fact that the New York Times later doctored the original article and removed the headline does not change the fact. I am glad that I noted the original article at the time. So now Carlotta will write daily articles about the corruption and fraud in the Afghan election hoping that we forget her early stamp of approval.