Indian indelible ink marker firm blames Afghan poll officials (Khaleej Times Online)

I have been looking for some explanation of the fraud claims in the Afghan poll since I knew that the indelible ink was supplied by an Indian company.

This article has an official from the company saying that the problem was probably due to ballot markers being used to mark the voters instead of the indelible markers. He says that the polls officials were inexperienced but the article doesn't address the possibility that this may have been deliberate.

The company, government-owned Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd (MPVL), has supplied ink markers for elections in Nepal, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam and company officials said they hadn’t received a single complaint in four decades.

Impressive!