This ain’t your Fathers’ Kingdom. Saudi Arabia announced yesterday due to logistical reasons women will not be allowed to vote in the first Kingdom-wide elections.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there are not enough women to run women’s-only registration centers and polling stations, and that only a fraction of the country’s women have the photo identity cards that would have been needed to vote.
Many women in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, have balked at getting the ID cards — introduced three years ago — because the photographs would show their faces unveiled.

I would have thought they would officially allow women to vote yet since the men don’t let the women outside their turnout would slim.