America's North Shore Journal

More than 16,000 people have registered to vote in the August 2009 Afghanistan general election at a voter registration site established in Kabul’s Aishia Durani High School. The site, which is one of 360 located throughout the country, has been operating for a month and benefitted from a rigorous community campaign by organisers of the registration site. Throughout the country, most educational and medical institutions have been tasked with providing a space to conduct voter registration. Rear Admiral Matthieu Borsboom, ISAF’s deputy chief of staff for stability, visited the registration site at Aisha Durani Dec. 1 to witness first hand how the registration process, is progressing. “It’s a good process because [it has been] invented by the Afghans; they decided on it and conduct [it] with Afghan people,” he said. “It’s a step … Read entire article »