Two states banned them outright. Those laws were rendered invalid for married women by a 1965 Supreme Court decision and the ruling was expanded in 1972 to cover all women.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

But the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission examined more than 2,500 allegations of fraud including phantom polling stations, ballot-stuffing and police intimidation and declared a third of Mr.Karzai's ballots invalid, reversing his outright victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20