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Historic Day in Afghanistan

• Oct. 9: A voter dips his thumb into purple ink before he casts his ballot at a polling station in Kabul.
• Oct. 9: An Afghan woman shows a voter-registration card in a Kandahar polling station.
• Oct. 9: An Afghan woman in a burqa is frisked at a women's polling station in Kandahar.
• Oct. 9: Afghan women cast their vote in Kandahar.
• Oct. 9: Afghan women line up to vote in Kabul.
• Oct. 9: Men line up to vote in Kabul.
• Oct. 9: President Hamid Karzai casts his ballot in Kabul.
• Oct. 9: Famed Uzbek warlord and current presidential candidate Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum casts his vote in his home village of Khwaja Doko.
• Oct. 9: Men and women line up separately in Kabul.
• Oct. 9: An Afghan woman casts her vote in Herat.
• Oct. 9: A man who lost his legs in a 1993 mine explosion casts his ballot in Herat.

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