By another account, covering the same news, IEC Chief Electoral Officer Daoud Ali Najafi announced in a news conference that Karzai was at 38% while Abdullah was at 36%, based on 550,000 votes [REF].
Reports of the total number of registered voters have varied[REF] from 15 million,[REF] to 15.6 million,[REF] to 17 million,[REF][REF][REF] with no verified list of eligible voters to compare against [REF].