Kerry: Afghan Presidential Candidates Agree to Vote Audit

Kerry Says Kabul Talks Reach Deal On Afghan Vote Audit (Radio Free Europe)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says two days of talks in Kabul with Afghanistan’s presidential candidates have led to an agreement on an internationally supervised audit of the ballots.

Speaking late on July 12 beside both presidential candidates and Afghanistan's outgoing President Hamid Karzai, Kerry said all 8 million ballots that were counted by Afghan election officials in a preliminary tally of the June 14 runoff vote will be audited.

He said candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani both agreed on July 12 that they would abide by the results of the audit -- and that whoever is shown to be the winner will “immediately form a government of national unity.”