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Arabia
Kuwaiti women added to voter rolls for the first time
2006-01-05
Kuwait's newly-enfranchised women have been added to the voter rolls for the first time, and the country now has more women voters than men, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The government decided to register the women as voters automatically because it feared February, the only month during which voters can register, would not give sufficient time to enroll the country's women in time for the 2007 parliamentary elections, Brig. Khaled Al Osaimi, told reporters. No date has been set for next year's elections, but should the 50-seat men-only house have been dissolved before women were registered, they would not have been able to run for office or cast ballots.
Posted by:Fred

#6  TW...I'm not sure if you are addressing me or not. But... I think we are saying the same thing :-)

The good news in Kuwait is that the current crop of candidates will recognize that the first women will indeed vote with their husbands and fathers and the current politicians will want to get the increased votes. As for 50-100 years from now - that will be somebody else's problem, not theirs.
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-05 20:12  

#5  Then why the big fuss about winning the Soccer Mom vote, and why does the Democratic Party court female voters?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-05 11:31  

#4  *snicker* That was true in the US when women first got the vote too. And it really wasn't that long ago.
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-05 11:09  

#3  This is extremely big news in the Gulf, and is being watched very closely by every country in the region.

When that first election is held, everybody will get to see what for them will be a startling result:

The women will vote almost identically to the way their fathers and husbands vote.

This will especially impress the Saudis, who, more than anything else are terribly conservative and afraid of change. If they suspect that Saudi women will be just as conservative as Saudi men, then Saudi women will get the vote much faster.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-01-05 11:06  

#2  Soddy Arabia to follow by 2075.
Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2006-01-05 10:33  

#1  Well there goes the country. Next thing you know they will want to make booze illegal, er...
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-01-05 08:45  

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