Symbolizing Afghanistan’s candidates

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Every candidate in Afghanistan today not only had his or her name and photograph on the ballot, but also a special symbol, or pictogram. President Hamid Karzai’s pictogram was a set of judicial scales. Others had scissors, ice cream cones, even soccer balls. The idea was to help the country’s millions of illiterate voters. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports. >>> See examples from the 2005 parliamentary elections.