November 21, 2004

DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'RE ARABS AND DEMOCRACY IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM?:

Saudis to Begin Registration for Historic Elections Tomorrow (Raid Qusti, 21 November 2004, Arab News)

Male Saudi citizens in the capital will begin registering tomorrow — (Monday, Nov. 22) — to vote in the coming historic municipal elections.

According to the committee supervising the elections, an agreement has been reached with a private company for the installation of a computerized network which will store all data related to registration and ballot centers.

The network will store the citizen’s name, his age, his ID number and place of birth. It will also record the ballot center at which he registers to vote.

According to a spokesman, the network will not allow any citizen to register more than once even if he attempts to do so at another location in the Kingdom.

Those registering will be asked to show property deeds, or rental agreements with their landlords, or water and electricity bills to provide proof of residency in the area. If none of the above are available, the testimony of two witnesses will be accepted.

According to the election regulations made public by the Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs, every male citizen has the right to vote, provided that he is above 21 and that he is not in the military.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 21, 2004 12:03 AM
Comments

My word. They're better at this than Washington State.

Posted by: Timothy at November 21, 2004 1:03 AM

Who are the candidates?

Vote for the psychotic religious nutball in column A or the psychotic religious nutball in column B.

What are the campaign issues?

Candidate A says 'Non-Muslims should be boiled in oil.'

Candidate B says, 'Candidate A is a bleeding heart. Non-Muslims should be beaten in the head with a sledgehammer, castrated and then boiled in oil. No true follower of the Prophet Muhammad, Blessings and Peace be upon him, would do less.'

Posted by: Bart at November 21, 2004 6:36 AM

Something like that Bart, but then will come the Muslim Phyliss Schafly who will write the Saudi equivalent of "Choice not an Echo".

Then you will see a real blossoming of Democracy.

Candidate C who says "Crush the Infidels like Cockroaches"

Posted by: h-man at November 21, 2004 8:31 AM

What's with the military losing the right to vote? Did the Democrats design the Saudi voting laws?

Posted by: pj at November 21, 2004 12:04 PM
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