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Post-dictatorship Tunisia’s recent election for assembly benefitted women and showed the power of technology. With Tunisia’s ballot boxes closed but not stuffed, the real political winners in the country’s first free election are women.
Working as an official observer for the National Democratic Institute last week, I was struck both by how well women have fared in the new democratic process and how patient and proud many Tunisians were as they were handed a real ballot. Counting those ballots took a full week. But in a part of the world with little experience in administering fair elections, this is a logistical triumph.
