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The counting will happen in a crazy contested online space where one can expect the social media flooded with result sheets from both (maybe even many) sides showing their guy is ahead. Because agents of each side at the site will have access to polling station tally.

Polls close in Afghanistan and vote counting begins. Polling station tallies will likely start trickling today and tomorrow to candidates and to election commission. But preliminary results not expected for days.

The MOI says the casualties are much less than previous two elections. But the numbers they give — about 37 civilians and two army wounded, two police and one ALP killed — seems less than what we are tallying from around the country.

The campaign chiefs of both Ghani and Abdullah, despite pointing out problems and irregularities, say their initial impression is that in general the elections seem to have been better than the past. @TOLOnews

Afghanistan’s election commission says turnout numbers from across country still trickling to them — slowed by telecom shutdowns. Estimates they have from roughly half of polling centers is just a little over a million voters, suggesting total turnout could be around two million

Is there an official figure of how many people were eligible to vote?

sort of -- the 9.6 million or so list of eligible voters for parliamentary elections. But many sane people questioned that figure all along -- it was unrealistic & inflated, and now coming back to bite in the back. because any turnout will be seen as a percentage of that 9.6m...