Polling concludes; vote count begins

Fuente: 
Pajhwok Afghan News
Fecha de publicación: 
05 Abr 2014

KABUL (Pajhwok): Voting in the landmark presidential and provincial council elections came to a close after an hour of extension on Saturday evening.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said at least 12 million people had been issued with voter cards. Long queues of voters could be seen outside polling stations.

A total of 6,845 polling stations were established throughout the country but 323 were added later on. Among them, security for 420 polling sites could not be ensured.

After an end to polling, election staff embarked on counting votes in the presence of observers and candidate representatives.

At least 400,000 security personnel were deployed to protect the ballot. During the last three elections, 21 million voter cards had been distributed. Only 4 million received their cards this time.

Dr, Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmai Rassoul, Qutbuddin Hilal, Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, Hidayat Amin Arsala, Gul Agha Sherzai and Sultan Daudzoy are in the run for the presidency.

About 2,600 individuals are contesting provincial council elections.

 

Source/Fuente: http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2014/04/05/polling-concludes-vote-count-begins