Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials said Saturday that the commission’s goal is to register between five and seven million voters, but that they have printed 18 million stickers to use if the number of voters goes up. 

In the voter registration process, the election commission pastes the stickers on the original ID cards of voters and on election day voters can only vote if they have the stickers on their ID cards. 

According to the election commission, 4.6 million voters have registered their names to vote of which 32 percent are women. 

In this episode of Takani, host Zabi Sadat discusses the topic with the following guests:

• Shams Rasikh, a member of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan

• Fazl Rahman Orya, political activist

• Mohammad Ibrahim Rahimi, head of civil society and political party unity commission