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    Posted: 16 May 2005 at 7:11pm

woo hoo! Women in Kuwait have just been given the power to vote and run for government positions! 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1369904.htm

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=1012 5914

Due to Shariah law, women and men will have to have separate voting places, so let's hope they provide enough for all the women.

Women are now able to vote in every Islamic country that has elections, except for Saudi Arabia.

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let's also hope that the results of the elections are not fabricated... for "elections" and "fabrication" have become couisins sharing their lineage with "corruption" not only in underdeveloped world but in an "overdeveloped" too...
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heh heh heh - too true.

I like your use of the word "overdeveloped". I think "over-inflated" would fit, too.

However, is there a system better than democractic elections? I don't think so. They just need to be made more foolproof. And, in most cases, involving compulsry voting. They're more difficult to rig that way, I believe.

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To be fair to the Saudis, they just gave men the vote... so I doubt the Sisters will have it (if ever) for many many years. 

Now the next step is for more women to actually get out and vote... throughout the world.  Women here in the US have a really embarrassing voting record.  Too many take the right for granted.

Of course, it would be nice if there were candidate out there worthy of voting for...
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Originally posted by umsami umsami wrote:

Of course, it would be nice if there were candidate out there worthy of voting for...

 

Which there never will be as long as being elected doesn't depend on getting votes so much as having the ability to be evil/wheedling enough to make a LOT of money.

Another plus for compulsory voting...

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http://www.usavotenet.com/turnout.htm

I'm not sure if the graphs show that 55% of the voters were women in 2000, or whether only 55% of women actually voted...

 

Also:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/ 2004-08-25-female-vote_x.htm

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And jsut fro interest, or fairness, or something... 

 

http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/What/voting/turnout/2004.htm

 

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West dreads that Muslim might unite, as it won't be able to control them by taking advantage of rivalries that exist between them and intimidate them easily (as it does now). Religion alone can unite Muslims ,as, Their religion alone is the only distinguishing aspect of all (or almost all) of the people of the Middle-East (or Muslim world South of the Mediterannean) that they have share in common. West intends to prevent this (union of Muslims) by installing liberal/secular regimes hoping (probably, correctly), that they will be antagonistic to religious leaders, who are more likely to unite (as they have similar goals, defined by their religion) compared to liberal /secular leaders who can't be expected to rise above local petty issues to address the bigger problems of the Ummah. 

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