 Kuwait's newly-enfranchised women have been added to the voter rolls for the first time, and the country now has more women voters than men, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The government decided to register the women as voters automatically because it feared February, the only month during which voters can register, would not give sufficient time to enroll the country's women in time for the 2007 parliamentary elections, Brig. Khaled Al Osaimi, told reporters. No date has been set for next year's elections, but should the 50-seat men-only house have been dissolved before women were registered, they would not have been able to run for office or cast ballots. |