90 Percent of Afghans Registered To Vote

Overcoming a violent campaign to disrupt the effort, about 90 percent of the Afghan electorate has registered to vote in October's presidential election. The Associated Press reports :

According to the latest U.N. figures, 8.7 million of an estimated 9.8 million eligible voters have collected ID cards that will allow them to cast a ballot when polling begins Oct. 9 in Afghanistan's first-ever direct national vote.

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"The participation is amazing," U.N. spokesman David Singh said. "There was a lot of skepticism about this process at the beginning, but the targets have been fulfilled."

This is a significant victory in the war against terror. The evil doers mounted a terror campaign against the voter registration effort. According to the Associated Press:

At least nine people working to prepare the elections have been killed in attacks sometimes claimed by the Taliban, despite efforts by some 20,000 U.S.-led troops to protect the process.

Most recently, an Afghan election worker and a voter was killed Wednesday when a bomb exploded in a mosque being used as registration center in Ghazni province. A mine seriously injured three election workers in the Taliban stronghold of Uruzgan on Friday, Afghan officials said.

This gives me great hope for Afghanistan.

Comments

[Noel]

Good news, indeed. I'm old enough to remember when the Left actually cared about such things.

Bush Led!