Karzai at 48% of the vote ... road ahead', unclear ...

NYTIMES here ,

"A special audit committee submitted its election fraud findings after a lengthy investigation on Monday, and a Western official familiar with them said they appeared likely to show that President Hamid Karzai had won about 48 percent.....

.... It was not immediately clear whether the findings, presented as a dense report backed with dozens of pages of technical details, meant there should be a second round. But it did mean provisional results which gave Karzai 54.6 percent of the vote to Abdullah's 28 percent would almost certainly have to be changed...."