Afghan election audit restarts after holiday delay

By Rahim Faiez

Published August 3, 2014 3:29pm ET

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Afghan election audit restarts after holiday delay — Afghan election commission workers sort ballot papers for an audit of the presidential run-off votes at an election commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. An audit of results from Afghanistan's presidential runoff election resumed Sunday after a holiday break, an electoral official said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) | Rahmat Gul

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An audit of results from Afghanistan’s presidential runoff election resumed Sunday after a holiday break, an electoral official said.

The audit of more than 8 million votes is likely to take weeks, stalling an already much-delayed announcement of a new president to replace Hamid Karzai, the only leader the country has known since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban.

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