The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan has made some regions inaccessible for candidates campaigning ahead of the country's parliamentary elections, due to take place on September 18.<br /><br />Many candidates have been forced to travel with bodyguards and armoured vehicles, but despite taking these precautions some areas remain too dangerous to campaign in.<br /><br />Although more than 130,000 coalition forces are reinforcing the Afghan government, the spread of instability has left a large segment of the population at risk of being either not represented at all in the poll or having their ballot subjected to fraud.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports from Kabul, the Afghan capital.
