KABUL - Mohammad Aziz Bakhtiyari, a member of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), is concerned that if the commission announces final results the chance of a crisis may emerge for the nation.

Bakhtiyari warned that if final results are announced and the country does go into a crisis, the IEC and the people behind the fraud will be held responsible.

"Those who create problems for the nation will be held responsible," he said pointing toward the election commission. "The IEC and institutions involved in the fraudulent acts will be held accountable."

The works of the IEC have ended and are now awaiting the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) to finalize their decision on the registered complaints and invalidation of ballots passed on by the IEC. Once concluded the electoral commissions have announced that the final results will be publicized.

"The commission's technical work is completed and details of the outcome have been sent to the ECC," Ahmad Jawid Habibi, acting IEC secretariat, said. "As of now, we are waiting for ECC's final decision."

When the audit process was concluded, IEC announced that votes from 1,124 polling stations were invalidated.

IEC has not mentioned the exact number of votes that were invalidated, but according to reports more than 800,000 votes have been voided, which according to the IEC will not bring significant changes to the final results.

ECC is said to finalize their decision by the end of this week. (Tolonews)