“There is a draft, and that draft isn’t the final decision of the election commission,” she said.

“Nothing officially has been announced,” said another election spokeswoman, Kobra Rezaei. “A discussion is ongoing because we have to hold four elections next year, and we faced some problems in the parliamentary elections this year, so we are trying to figure out how we can hold fair elections. If a new decision is made about the election date, we will hold a news conference to announce it.”

The four elections scheduled for April 20 include the presidential vote, elections for provincial councils from the country’s 34 provinces, and inaugural elections for councils in the country’s 400 districts. In addition, the parliamentary elections that took place across the country on Oct. 20 were postponed in Ghazni Province until April 20 because of poor security.

Since 2009, Afghanistan’s elections have been dogged by fraud and widespread dissension over the results. The 2014 presidential election nearly collapsed because of claims of large-scale vote theft, until the American government negotiated a power-sharing agreement between the two leading candidates, providing for Mr. Ghani to be president and his leading opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, to serve in an invented position of chief executive.

Part of that deal called for negotiating laws to prevent fraud in future elections, but infighting led to the postponement of parliamentary election due in early 2015.

The parliamentary vote was rescheduled and delayed twice more, until it was finally held Oct. 20. Because of widespread ballot stuffing and other forms of electoral fraud in previous elections, political parties insisted on portable biometric devices being distributed to thousands of polling places to verify the identity of registered voters.

The last-minute program, however, was a spectacular failure. The biometric screening failed even for Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah when they cast their ballots on Election Day. Thousands of the biometric devices — and their data — have yet to be returned to election headquarters in Kabul, officials said.

There has also been criticism of the devices’ potential to identify voters and how they voted.

Those and other technical problems have greatly delayed the counting of votes: Five weeks later, results have been announced for only five of 33 provinces where voting took place. Estimates are that final results may not be ready until well into January — leaving barely three months to prepare for the next elections.