Kabul, Nov. 4 -- The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan will on Monday begin the recounting of votes cast in the September 28 presidential elections across all the 34 provinces of the country.

The recounting comes after biometrics company Dermalog had recently deemed some of the votes as invalid, reports TOLO News.

On Saturday, the IEC had released new vote numbers, saying that Dermalog had identified 1,843,107 valid votes out of the 1,929,333 ballots already transferred to the Commission's central database.

"The Council of Presidential Candidates believes that if there is even one fraudulent vote and someone makes his way to the President's office with that fake vote-this will not, of course, be acceptable," said presi...