Election Day in Afghanistan

Afghan election workers adjust bibs that identify them as campaign staff at a polling station in Mazar-e-Sharif on August 20, 2009, during the Presidential elections.
Keith Bedford / AFP / Getty

Getting Into Gear
Afghan election workers adjust bibs that identify them as campaign staff at a polling station in Mazar-e-Sharif. The vast majority of the country's 6,969 polling stations were able to open despite the security threat, according to the U.N.

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