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20 August 2009 - 08:45 am: People in Mazar started to reach the polling stations from 06:45 am. After 30 minutes of delay due to the late positioning of the local observers the first voters started to use their democratic right by 07:30 am.
20 August 2009 - 08:20 am: Member of Parliament Fawzia Koofi has just been live on BBC World Service saying the people are shaping their future.
20 August 2009 - 07:50am: At Bamyan’s Sayed Abad Girl’s High School Governor Habiba Sarabi was the first to vote at a women’s polling station. She said that as a citizen she came to vote, it was her right and responsibility.
20 August 2009 - 07:31 am: The Education Faculty in Jalalabad saw 58 year old Muhammad Yusef turn up at 5:45 am to vote. He said he had never voted before. 200 people showed up in the first half hour
KABUL - Polling stations are opening across the country now. On one of Afghanistan's leading TV stations a live election show is already underway. Farhad Darya, probably Afghanistan's most popular singer, is appealing for people to vote.
20 August 2009 - 12:01 am: Afghanistan votes today in historic presidential and provincial council elections.