Live Blog: Afghanistan Presidential Election 2014

A reporter for the "Guardian" newspaper. It was originally reported that four had been wounded.

According to the Afghan Interior Ministry, six people have been arrested on suspicion of ballot stuffing in Kandahar, Wardak, and Kabul provinces. Those arrested include a police officer and an officer of the National Directorate of Security, the country’s spy agency. -- Frud Bezhan

Kevin Sieff, the Kabul Bureau chief for the "Washington Post," contrasts Kabul and Wardak, located in central Afghanistan. He says four election observers have been arrested there for fraud.

Noor Mohmad, the spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Elections Commission, tells our Afghan Service that no irregularities have been reported in Kabul so far. Of the 557 voting centers, 45% are for women voters.

An RFE/RL Afghan Service reporter in Sar-e-Pul in Afghanistan's North, where there is apparently heavy rain, says voting centers are crowded anyway. He says people are celebrating as if it is Norouz.

"It seems like a festival. People are out in colorful outfits. Everyone looks happy."

-- Frud Bezhan and Freshta Jalalzai

Each candidate is also given an identifying symbol to assist voters who are unable to read. Only 39 percent of Afghanistan's adult population is literate (Frud Bezhan wrote about the symbols here).

A voter in Ghazni province, in Eastern Afghanistan, tells our Afghan Service: "We are voting to determine the future of Afghanistan. We vote so we will have a better future and a good president who will serve the country. "

Security update: Taliban attacks reported in Ghazni, Khost, Kandahar, Faryab, and Samangan provinces. No casualties reported. Explosion kills 3 in Zabul Province, near Pakistan border -- Frud Bezhan

1000s of police, soldiers, plainclothed intel officers in Kabul. Checkpoints everywhere, snipers on rooftops, troops armed w/ RP grenades -- Frud Bezhan