The First Vote
Very cool link from
Questions and Observations blog.
It is to a
Reuters article talking about the first vote to be cast in Afghanistan's Election:
bq. A 19-year-old Afghan woman living as a refugee in Pakistan has made history by casting the first vote in Afghanistan's first direct presidential election.
bq. Moqadasa Sidiqi, a science student who fled Kabul with her family in 1992, cast her ballot at a polling station at a primary school, not in Afghanistan, but in Islamabad, capital of neighbouring Pakistan.
bq. "I am very happy, I am very happy," Sidiqi, dressed in a pink and white traditional shalwar kameez and a white headscarf, told reporters after voting. "I can't explain...my feelings, because I am very excited," she said with a shy smile.
McQ comments: "...as a certain president might say, "let freedom reign."
Referring to
this of course
Blogged it
here
Posted by DaveH at October 8, 2004 11:06 PM