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Sporadic bombs and rocket attacks, rumors of suicide squads and reports of fraud weighed heavily on turnout in Afghanistan's presidential election Thursday, potentially casting a shadow over the government's ability to hold the country together once the votes are tallied.
“You have to look at this as three elections,” said Kenneth Wollack, president of NDI, a Washington- based democracy-building group that fielded a large monitoring mission in Afghanistan. "In the normal provinces, the ones where there is not a lot of violence, the process was normal,” he said. But “there are provinces where there are pockets of problems and there are provinces where there seem to be widespread problems.”
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