Democracy Gets Small Portion of U.S. Aid?

The Washington Post had an article on Sunday, Democracy Gets Small Portion of U.S. Aid
in Pakistan. To be honest, I can't really follow it. It starts out saying:

"Two years before Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leading her Pakistan People's Party in its campaign against the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, the Bush administration devoted this much new aid money to strengthen po: litical parties in Pakistan: $0"

Which seems clear, but then it goes on to talk about a bunch of money we've spent there: "excluding covert funds, the United States has provided more than $10 billion to Pakistan since 2001, about half of that through poorly accounted reimbursement of expenses incurred in the war against al-Qaeda and Taliban."

"A USAID official provided statistics showing that the agency has devoted nearly $24 million to democracy programs for Pakistan since 2004, but almost 80 percent of that -- $19 million -- was earmarked for assisting the Election Commission, such as helping update nationwide voter rolls." Apparently that didn't go well, but it's not clear to me that giving that much for the "election commission" is irresponsible. Then again, I'm no expert on the topic and these officials should be.