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India-Pakistan
2 Khyber tribes bar women from voting
2007-12-15
LANDI KOTAL: The Mulla Gori and Zakha Khel tribes in Khyber Agency at a public meeting in Mulla Gori Sherbridge on Friday announced that their women would not be allowed to vote. Tribal elders warned the Election Commission not to set up polling stations for women in their areas, saying they would shut them down. They also warned women not to violate their decision, threatening action in line with tribal traditions.
That'd include throwing acid in their faces, I guess...
Meanwhile, around 200 baton-wielding Khuga Khel Shinwari tribe women blocked the Pak-Afghan road at Charwazgai to protest against extensive power outages.
Posted by:Fred

#3  The way around this problem is to conduct a census, in which all homes are visited. The male census takers go to talk with the men, and the female census takers go to talk with the women in a different area, "for modesty reasons". Then the female census takers vote the women while they talk to them.

This is not a secret ballot, so the women are required to vote.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-12-15 10:45  

#2  ROPMA.
Posted by: OldSpook   2007-12-15 10:31  

#1  Or the new Canadian tradition of throttling your own daughter to death.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-12-15 08:14  

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