An Afghan voter drying her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her ballot at a polling station during the presidential elections in Herat yesterday. Millions of Afghans lined up outside polling centres to cast their ballots in an election that marked the country’s first democratic transition from one president to another. Polling stations stayed open an additional hour due to a rush of last-minute voters, with additional ballot papers having to be delivered to stations across the country, the Afghan election commission said. An estimated 7mn of the 12mn eligible voters cast their ballots, said Yousuf Nooristani, the chairman of the Independent Elections Commission
