A woman casts her ballot in a ballot box near a Kazakh national flag at a polling station in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. Oil-rich Kazakhstan, the most prosperous country in ex-Soviet Central Asia, voted Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to give Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the country for the last 16 years, another seven-year term. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)