Turnout in the Afghanistan parliamentary elections was disappointingly light, some 40% below expectations, according to Euronews. Some 10 percent of polling stations that had been intended to be used simply did not open because of fears of Taliban attacks. Those closures were on top of the 10 percent or so that it had already been decided would not open, because they were in Taliban-held territory.
Forty percent below expectations? That would have to mean that somebody (whoever Cole is talking about, and he is quoting Eruonews on that figure) was expecting at least a 40% turnout. Considering the conditions in Afghanistan, I would have thought 40 to be high. That same Euronews article says that preliminary results of the election aren’t expected until early October. Gives ample time to screw with those results.
We start howling here if it goes longer than 10:00 pm the night of.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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