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This article focuses on illegally-obtained voter ID cards in Afghanistan. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some voters obtain more than one ID card and use them in elections, which violates election law. We examine whether voters actually possess multiple ID cards, characteristics of the voters who obtain multiple cards, and whether and to what extent those who hold multiple cards use their cards in elections to vote multiple times. To achieve these goals, we conducted an original survey of 300 voters in Jalalabad City in Nangarhar Province. We find that (1) approximately 19% of the respondents hold two or more voter ID cards; (2) multiple card holders tend to be less educated; and (3) more than 50% of those who hold multiple cards voted multiple times in the first and second rounds of the 2014 presidential election.
