Karzai, Abdullah tie election with 10 percent of votes tallied

Afghanistan’s election commission said President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah both have roughly 40 percent of the nationwide vote for president with 10 percent of ballots in.

The commission says that Karzai has 40.6 percent and Abdullah has 38.7 percent, but the vote totals are based on only 10 percent of the country’s returns.

The commission plans to release partial results each day the next several days. Final, certified results won’t be made public until mid or late September.