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Pan exterior of polling station2. Mid shot of ballot box and election official3. Marking man's thumb4. Officials explains to man how to vote5. Ink on man's finger6. Ballot paper stamped7. Man puts vote in box8. SOUNDBITE: (Dari)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKabul\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan exterior of polling station\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot of ballot box and election official\u003cbr/\u003e3. Marking man's thumb\u003cbr/\u003e4. Officials explains to man how to vote\u003cbr/\u003e5. Ink on man's finger\u003cbr/\u003e6. Ballot paper stamped\u003cbr/\u003e7. Man puts vote in box\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Voxpop, Shah Mohammed\u003cbr/\u003e\"We want an election to have a president who would serve the government and the people of the country, and end the war and the misery. We want a free and an independent way, that is our only wish.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKabul\u003cbr/\u003e9. Afghan President Hamid Karzai casting his vote\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghan President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a great day for the Afghan people. For the first time we are voting for elections to elect our president.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eKhwaja Doko, 195 kilometres (about 120 miles) west of Mazar-e-Sharif \u003cbr/\u003e11. Crowd greeting Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum\u003cbr/\u003e12. People cheering for Dostum\u003cbr/\u003e13. Dostum voting\u003cbr/\u003eKabul\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of women in burqas queuing at polling station\u003cbr/\u003e15. Man being guided into polling booth by election official\u003cbr/\u003eSar-e Pul, Wardak Province - 40kms south of Kabul\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot of polling centre\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pashtun men entering polling centre\u003cbr/\u003e18. Official checks voter registration card\u003cbr/\u003e19. Official marks man's thumb\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close-up of ballot paper\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of man's face\u003cbr/\u003e22. Stamping ballot paper\u003cbr/\u003e23. Man puts vote in box\u003cbr/\u003eKabul\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of Abdul Sattar Sirat talking to media\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdul Sattar Sirat\u003cbr/\u003e\"The shura (council) decided that today's election is not legitimate to us. Any government established as a result of this election would not be a legitimate government. We would not accept the result of today's election.\" \u003cbr/\u003e26. Set up shot Hamid Karzai at news conference in presidential palace\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Interim Afghan President\u003cbr/\u003e\"All the candidates must respect the very fact that the Afghan people have come out of their homes, in snow and rain and dust, and waited for hours to vote. We should respect the result, whatever that may be. And there is time for the joint commission to study whatever irregularities that the were.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. UN Spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva walking up to podium at press conference\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN Spokesman\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think there is cheating with ink. I think we have explained the assessment made by experts, is that the problem was with the application of the ink.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Set up shot of Ray Kennedy, vice chairman Joint Election Management Body (JEMB), in elections media centre\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ray Kennedy, vice chairman, Joint Election Management Body (JEMB)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Were there opportunities for people to vote multiple times? Sure. How many were there? That's the question.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Set up of Ambassador Richard Williamson, IRI board member\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ambassador Richard Williamson, International Republican Institute (IRI) board member\u003cbr/\u003e\"We found today's election to be encouraging. It was a victory for the Afghan people, overwhelmingly they went to polls, they waited in line,\u003cbr/\u003ethey were committed and they voted. There were some technical problems but none of those that we saw do anything to undercut the acceptability and legitimacy of this election and the winners are Afghan people. The losers are the Taliban and others who want to divide the country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e34. Various of women election officials closing polling station, sealing ballot boxes and making note of numbers of votes cast\u003cbr/\u003eAfghanistan's first direct presidential election was in crisis hours after it started on Saturday when 15 candidates announced a boycott over fraud allegations, and interim leader Hamid Karzai sought to salvage the historic ballot, declaring it \"free and fair.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAll of the candidates challenging the US-backed Karzai - who was heavily tipped to win - demanded that the election be abandoned, arguing that the system of using ink to mark people's thumb once they'd voted was flawed.\u003cbr/\u003eElectoral officials rejected the demand, saying it would rob millions of their chance to vote in the country's first experiment with democracy, and\u003cbr/\u003ethat the joint UN-Afghan panel overseeing the election would rule later on its legitimacy. \u003cbr/\u003eFirst ballot results weren't expected until late on Sunday.\u003cbr/\u003eEven if the vote was ultimately validated, Karzai's ability to unite the nation, fight rampant warlords and crush a lingering Taliban insurgency might be compromised if his opponents refused to accept the results and insisted that his rule was illegitimate.\u003cbr/\u003eThe boycott cast a pall over what had been a joyous day in Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eMillions of ethnically diverse Afghan voters braved threats of Taliban violence to cram polling stations for an election aimed at bringing peace and\u003cbr/\u003eprosperity to a country nearly ruined by more than two decades of war.\u003cbr/\u003eAt least 12 election workers, and dozens of Afghan security forces, died in the past few months as the nation geared up.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fraud allegations were another blow to the international community, which spent about 200 million (m) US dollars staging the vote. \u003cbr/\u003eElection officials said workers at some voting stations mistakenly swapped the permanent ink meant to mark thumbs with normal ink meant for ballots, but insisted the problem was caught quickly.\u003cbr/\u003eThe opposition candidates, meeting at the house of Uzbek candidate Abdul Satar Sirat, signed a petition saying they wouldn't recognise the results of the vote.\u003cbr/\u003eSirat, an ex-aide to Afghanistan's last king and a minor candidate expected to poll in the low single-digits, said all 15 candidates opposing Karzai agreed to the boycott.\u003cbr/\u003eBut a 13-member US observer team from the bipartisan International Republican Institute described the polls as \"a triumph for the Afghan people\".\u003cbr/\u003eThe European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe sent observer missions, but neither said it planned to pass judgment on the fairness of the process, saying it wouldn't be appropriate to try to hold Afghanistan to international standards.\u003cbr/\u003eInitial results from the election aren't expected until late Sunday or early Monday, but anything 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