both president ashraf ghani and his main opponent of della della say the election seems to have been better than past falls we spoke earlier today of your sondra headers a man who's reported extensively from afghanistan and we asked if she agreed with the official appraisal well let's start with what we didn't see there wasn't any major attack and the capital kabul as many observers had anticipated but having said that there were mighty post small scale attacks throughout the country with dozens of people killed in jets as is the case on most days in afghanistan which is still the words that the conflict today and that i think is the sad reality that the scare tactics of the taliban seem to have worked because a lot of people just decided to stay home today because of lack of security there was a lot of brave people coming out but 1st estimates indicate. that voter turnout might be anywhere between one or 2000000 people compared to the last presidential elections in 2014 this is a mess if massive drop back then close to 8000000 voters were brave enough to cause their ballot despite e