(20 Sep 2010)
1. Wide of boxes containing polling result sheets at (IEC) Independent Election Commission tally centre
2. Close of IEC workers arranging the boxes which have been delivered
3. Mid of workers carrying box off lorry
4. Various of IEC workers checking arriving boxes with result sheets
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Farid Afghanzai, Head of External Media Relations Department, Afghan Independent Election Commission:
"Today we officially commenced the process of intake of these TEBs, the TEBs or Tamper Evident Bags which contain the result sheets. The result sheets here come to tally centre which is after the intake process, we are making sure that... the purpose of this is to make sure about the transparency of the process and the accuracy of the results, which the votes has been casted in the polling stations and has been delivered to here to national tally centre."
6. Various of IEC workers working in IEC tally centre entering the results into computer system
7. Mid of female worker
8. Wide of tally centre
STORYLINE
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) continued counting votes on Monday at its Kabul tally centre from Saturday's controversial parliamentary election.
While the first vote counts are due to be made public in a few days time, full preliminary results are not expected until early October, and then there will be weeks of fraud investigations before winners are officially announced for the 249 parliamentary seats, which were contested by about 2,500 candidates.
The election commission has said it hopes to release final results by the end of October. But there are likely to be a host of fraud complaints in each province - which could drag the process beyond that target date. The resolution of last year's vote took months.
The main Afghan election observer group has said it has serious concerns about the legitimacy of this weekend's parliamentary vote because of reported fraud, even as President Hamid Karzai commended the balloting as a solid success.
The conflicting statements underscored the difficulty of determining the credibility of the vote which was hit by militant attacks that hurt the turnout. Afghan officials started gathering and tallying results on Sunday.
The country's international backers praised those who voted on Saturday despite bomb and rocket attacks and voiced their hopes for a democratic result.
A repeat of the pervasive fraud that tainted a presidential election a year ago would only erode further the standing of the administration of President Hamid Karzai - both at home and abroad - as it struggles against a Taliban insurgency.

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