Arnoldus von Westen Sylow Koren

Arnoldus von Westen Sylow Koren (22 July 1764 – 8 October 1854) was a civil servant and district judge. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly.
Biography.
Arnoldus Koren was born in Bergen, Norway. He father Niels Johansen Koren (1718-1784) was a sea captain and later merchant in Bergen. His elder brother was Ulrich Wilhelm Koren (1747-1826) who served as district governor in Stavanger. He completed Bergen Cathedral School in 1784. He started the divinity school in University of Copenhagen prior to earning his law degree in 1789. Trained as a lawyer, he served as district judge and magistrate ("Sorenskriver") in Hardanger and Voss from 1799.
He represented Søndre Bergenhus amt (now Hordaland) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814, together with Georg Burchard Jersin and Brynjel Andersen Gjerager. All three were supporters of the independence party ("Selvstendighetspartiet"). He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1814 and in 1818.
He was married in 1796 with his cousin, Magdalene Margrethe Christie (1767- 1842). They were the parents of eight children.

During the campaign there were some rumours that the election would be decided by negotiation, as candidates bargained for promises of political position under Karzai or another candidate in return for dropping out of the race. There were rumours in September that Sirat and Mohaqiq had formed a pact with Qanuni, whilst Gailani and Aarian declared their support for Karzai on the last day of campaigning, October 6.
All the candidates except Karzai, Gailani and Aarian, publicly declared that they were boycotting the ballot and would ignore the results— effectively uniting Karzai's disparate opponents. Two major opposition candidates, the Hazara leader Mohammed Mohaqeq and the Uzbek strongman General Abdul Rashid Dostum, soon declared they had not joined the boycott.
Election fraud.
Significant fraud occurred in the 2004 presidential election, even though it did not attract the level of international attention as the fraud in the 2009 presidential election.
On election day there were several claims that the ink used to mark voters could be easily removed and that multiple voting had resulted, as well as isolated reports of intimidation and campaigning at the polling centres.
Journalist Christian Parenti claimed that many people in Afghanistan were in possession of three or four photographic ID cards. He himself, not an Afghan citizen, could have easily voted. "One of the parties gave me two valid voting cards," he said "that I could add my photograph to and I could have voted if I wanted to." Other problems reported by Parenti included lack of pens in polling places, not having enough ballots, and differences in closing times of voting stations.
The documentary film "God's Open Hand" by Ghost Studios exposes voter fraud. However, the film mainly focuses on the hopes and dreams of the Afghan people on their first ever Presidential elections.
In September 2009, Hamid Karzai, downplaying the significance of the fraud in the 2009 presidential election, said "there was fraud in 2004" as well.
On September 3, 2009, when envoys from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other Western nations met in Paris to discuss the recent 2009 Afghan election, UN Special Representative in Afghanistan Kai Eide said that the 2009 Afghan presidential election, widely characterized by rampant fraud and intimidation, "was a better election than five years ago."
Violence.
Rebels loyal to the former Taliban leadership had vowed to disrupt the election, accusing the United States moving to dominate the region. During the election process, five Afghan National Army soldiers died in skirmishes and due to landmines. 15 staff of the Joint Electoral Management Body were killed and a further 46 injured in various attacks. 
2 International sub-contractors working in Nuristan in support of the electoral process were also killed.