An Afghan woman walks past election campaign posters on a street in Kabul Friday, September 17, 2010. The Taliban have kidnapped 19 people associated with Afghanistan's parliamentary election, including a candidate in the eastern province of Laghman, and eight ballot officials and 10 campaign workers in Bagdhis, in the northwest, officials of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) told AFP.
Afghan villagers load a donkey with election supplies for a village in the Panjshir valley on September 17, 2010 on the eve of a parliamentary vote.
Election workers load up donkeys to carry voting material to remote mountainous villages September 17, 2010 in Shotol, in the Panjshir, Afghanistan. With only five donkeys available, workers were also paid to walk three hours to get the materials to the village of Raydara.
Pigeons fly at the Blue Mosque a day before the parliamentary election September 17, 2010 in Mazar-e-sharif, Afghanistan.
Maliha Ahmadzia, a 25-year-old law and political science student at Mawlana University in Balkh province, poses for a photo on Sept. 17, 2010 in Mazar-e-sharif, Afghanistan. Ahmadzia is one of about 2,500 candidates contesting the 249 seats in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of parliament; 68 seats are reserved for women.
Afghan election workers prepare election materials in a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010. The vote is the latest step in a U.S.-led process to bring democracy to the impoverished and deeply conservative Muslim country ravaged by 30 years of war and gripped by a brutal nine-year Taliban insurgency.
Afghan men line up to cast their vote outside a polling station in the hamlet of Chawni, north of Kabul, on September 18, 2010.
An Afghan woman reacts before casting her ballot in parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday Sept. 18, 2010.
A young girl watches the interiors of a polling booth during the parliamentary elections in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures before casting his vote at a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010. Karzai cast his vote amid tight security following a pre-dawn rocket attack on the capital.
Afghan National Army soldiers stand guard on a street in Kabul on September 18, 2010.
An Afghan boy watches as his mother gets her hand inked before casting her vote September 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan women gather to vote at a polling station for the parliamentary elections on September 18, 2010 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan women arrive to cast their votes at a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010.
Afghan women line up to cast their vote outside a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010.
Afghan women wait in a long line to vote at a local mosque September 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan woman looks through the multiple-page ballot searching for her candidate, at a local mosque September 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan woman votes at a local mosque September 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Balkh Governor Atta Mohmmad Nur votes at a polling station for the parliamentary elections on September 18, 2010 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ballots sit on the floor after the parliamentary elections at a polling station on September 18, 2010 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Election workers count votes after the parliamentary elections at a polling station on September 18, 2010 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A worker counts votes after the parliamentary elections at a polling station on September 18, 2010 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan workers of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) count ballot papers at a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010. Voting in Afghanistan's parliamentary election officially closed at 4:00 pm local time, but an election official said people still queuing to cast their ballots would be permitted to do so.
An Afghan man offers prayers at sunset inside a polling station in Kabul on September 18, 2010. An election official put turnout in Afghanistan's parliamentary vote at 32 percent by midday in a vote conducted amid a Taliban campaign of violence and intimidation.
An Air Force carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Senior Airman Daniel R. Sanchez on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Sanchez, 23, of El Paso, Texas, died Sept. 16 while conducting combat operations in Oruzgan province, Afghanistan.