(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Fatah candidate Mahmoud Abbas won 61.6% of the vote for the chairmanship of the PA, officials announced Monday. Independent candidate Mustafa Barghouti won 21%. Election officials estimated voter turnout at 65%. The PA Central Election Committee decided Sunday afternoon to allow Palestinians who had not registered as voters to cast their ballots. Palestinian human rights activists complained that the decision was apparently designed to allow Abbas's supporters to vote more than once. "There has been massive voting fraud and people have been bused in and out and are voting four or five times each," an activist said.
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