'Biased' Afghan election body fails to submit results .... again

UPDATE: South Asia News is reporting that Afghanistan's election body has failed to finalize Afghan vote recount results tonight as expected:

'The Election Complaints Commission (ECC), which is probing thousands of allegations of vote fraud, was expected to submit its rulings to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) by Saturday, in order to enable authorities to announce whether a runoff vote would be necessary. 

But Nellika Little, a spokeswomen for the ECC said that the body was still checking the suspicious ballots boxes, but she hoped that the rulings could be finalized and submitted to IEC by Sunday. 

Noor Mohammad Noor, a spokesman for the IEC said that it would take up to two more days for the body to announce the final certified results, once the rulings are received. 

The IEC conducted the August elections and is widely accused of being biased in favor of President Hamid Karzai, who won the re-election in the preliminary results. 

The final results were slated for mid-September, but have been repeatedly delayed by the ECC.......

According to diplomatic sources Karzai was resisting the publication of final results that would push his share of vote below 50 per cent. 

Officials from Western countries who funded the August election are said to be nudging Karzai and Abdullah to form a coalition government, but both rivals in the past said that sharing power was not an option for them. ...'