Election Day in Afghanistan

Democracy in Action
A burqa-clad Afghani woman blows on her inked finger prior to casting her vote at a polling station in Herat. Afghans were voting to elect a president for just the second time in their war-torn history as a massive security clampdown swung into action to prevent threatened Taliban attacks derailing the ballot.

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