a huge improvement over the last election in 2009. we saw significant improvement in the number of women and also young afghans voting. so this is being hailed as a landmark election here in afghanistan. the taliban have declared that they will disrupt this but it really seems to have done little to des courage afghans from taking part in this election. now, there were three main candidates that are sort of leading the pack of eight to replace outgoing president hamid karzai. ghani, dr. abdullah abdullah and rasual. all three have promised to improve the relationship with the united states and the international community and they have all promised to sign the bilateral security agreement with the united states, something that president karzai has refused to do, and it s been a real source of tension between the united states and afghanistan, but all of the main candidates here have promised to sign that agreement, and once that agreement is signed, the pentagon can then announce how ma