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Afghan election officials count ballot papers after polls closed in Kabul on June 14.
Afghan election officials count ballot papers after polls closed in Kabul on June 14.

Live Blog: Election Day In Afghanistan

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-- The vote count continues, as does the investigation into hundreds of claims of vote fraud. Final preliminary results are expected on July 2, and final results on July 22.

-- Many media refrained from reporting violence during the vote, but officials said June 15 that more than 270 Taliban attacks were recorded, resulting in the deaths of 50 civilians.

-- In one attack, a roadside bomb exploded beside a minibus that was carrying Afghan election workers home, killing 10 adults and a child.

-- Taliban militants severed the voting fingers of 11 voters in Herat Province.

-- The Independent Electoral Commission initially said that there were signs that voter turnout exceeded 7 million, putting it roughly on par with the first-round vote in April.

-- Officials said that, of those who turned out, 38 percent were women and 62 percent were men.

* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kabul
12:42 14.6.2014
Radio Free Afghanistan:
"Once again, the elections took place in a very good atmosphere and the process has been officially announced over. We evaluate it as very good. We did not face any particular challenges. We have recorded 150 attacks all over the country targeting our security forces, but with God's grace, every attack was defeated."
-- Interior Ministry spokesman Sidiq Sidiqi
12:55 14.6.2014
"I think that this time the amount of fraud is much lower than during the previous round, because of the representatives of both candidates, the international community, journalists, civil society, and the presence of people that closely observed the [election] process."
-- IEC head Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani speaking to reporters in Kabul
12:58 14.6.2014
Radio Free Afghanistan:
"In a few areas, fraud in favor of a particular candidate continues. In some areas voters were stopped from voting, had their fingers discolored after they cast ballots, and were persuaded [by armed men] to vote for their favorite candidate."
-- Amir Hamza Ahmadzai, head of IEC office in Kundoz Province
12:59 14.6.2014
Radio Free Afghanistan:
"Armed men wander around the area, gather people or farmers that they find along the way, load them in cars and ask them to vote for one candidate regardless of whether they have a voting card or not."

-- an unidentified male resident of Kunduz Province's Khan Abad district
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From Reuters:
"As voting ended ... it emerged there had been far fewer incidents of violence than had been feared, and, like in the first round of voting in April, there was a palpable sense of relief in the Afghan capital."

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