Afghan Polls Close As Voters Face Taliban Threats
Only a fraction of 9.6 million registered voters were expected to vote, deciding the democracy's fate.
by Alexander Tuerk
Sep 28, 2019
3 minutes
Polls closed Saturday in Afghanistan's presidential election amid reports of historically low voter turnout due to Taliban threats, chaos among candidates and flawed voting procedures.
About 9.6 million Afghans are registered to vote, but only a fraction were expected to cast a ballot — fewer than the 2014 presidential election or the 2018 parliamentary elections, reporter Jennifer Glasse told NPR's . A from the Afghanistan Analysts Network puts rough estimates of turnout from the Independent Election Commission, or IEC, at under 2 million voters. This means a small percentage of the country will determine the
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