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"Afghanistan is committed to end the culture of impunity and violation of law and bring to justice those involved in spreading corruption and abuse of public property"

- President Hamid Karzai , November 19th, 2009

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• Original Polling Center Master list of 6,969 polling centers from the Independent Election Commission (IEC).

• IEC's election prelim results from September 16th, a 2,500 page PDF.

• The Electoral Complaints Commission's (ECC) complaint data (which aggregates only to the provincial level).

Data Sources:

The system geo codes votes down the the district level. The political boundaries for this map covered 400 districts.Density point visualization shows results based on the Highlighted stations criteria, in this case % of stations effected.

Complex analysis: This Afghan ethnic distribution base layer is overlaid with districts won by Karzai (red dots) and Abdullah (green dots). Dot size indicates the number of votes. Ethnic data is digitized from the Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira

Interacting with the data: you can quickly drill down to any region, as the map zooms.

• Percent Population Urban by District Population by District (2003-2004) AIMS CSO Population Statistics.

• Settled Population by Province (2006-2007) Afghanistan Human Development Report 2007, Center for Policy and Human Development, Kabul University

• Estimated votes, via IEC’s Master Polling Center list

Population: 22,700Estimated voters:

53,039Difference: 30,339

Total votes: 15,023

Drill down in context: “Highlighted Station” selection continues to work within both provinces + districts

Per polling center data: see the affected stations and votes within a polling center

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geography matters

Road data: OSM provides better street data than AIMS

Snow line: 1,800 meters according to FAO