How much support/resistance will there be from local officials, religious authorities, and male family members?
Just consider: would you really make all the women in your household not vote when they're going to vote for the same guy you're voting for? It's local politics, odds are the household's interests are aligned.
The main one being whether the promise will be honored once the unrest and unease generated by the Arab Spring settle down. The other one is whether the men in the family simply "decide" for the women who and what they'll vote for come election time.
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Saudi king gives women right to vote
- 25/09/2011 03:50:03 PM
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Well it is progress.
- 25/09/2011 04:08:13 PM
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Are you kidding? I wish women weren't allowed to drive here in the US! 
*NM*
- 25/09/2011 05:31:36 PM
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*NM*
- 25/09/2011 05:31:36 PM
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If the King can give and take away the right to vote, what use is the vote? *NM*
- 25/09/2011 05:34:52 PM
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It's only municipal anyhow, has nothing to do with the King. *NM*
- 25/09/2011 07:35:16 PM
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Ah, I read it as "right to vote (generally), plus right to stand in municipal elections only".
- 26/09/2011 09:01:00 AM
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i'm sure they'd rather have driver's licenses, or the ability to travel on their own. *NM*
- 25/09/2011 06:34:50 PM
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Wow. Next thing you know, they'll be allowed to ride on the INside of the bus! *NM*
- 25/09/2011 10:28:22 PM
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Hm. Let's wait and see how able they are to exercise that right before making any calls.
- 25/09/2011 11:25:21 PM
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I wouldn't worry about that actually.
- 26/09/2011 06:40:05 PM
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That's a good point, but I still have my doubts.
- 27/09/2011 04:39:12 AM
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