Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/15/09 | Jason Keyser - ap

[NormsRevenge]

CAIRO – How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That's a key question in Iran's disputed presidential election. International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by officials, was fueling suspicion around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory.

Iran's supreme leader endorsed the hard-line president's re-election the morning after Friday's vote, calling it a "divine assessment" and appearing to close the door on challenges from Iran's reformist camp. But on Monday, after two days of rioting in the streets, he ordered an investigation into the allegations of fraud.

Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmadinejad's reformist challenger, claims he was robbed of the presidency and has called for the results to be canceled.

[NormsRevenge]

Iranian supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi march in Tehran. A protestor was reportedly shot dead by police in Tehran on Monday as massive crowds of people defied a ban to stage a rally against the disputed re-election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP/Olivier Laban-Mattei)

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Hundreds of thousands of Iranian opposition demonstrators fill the squares between Revolution and Freedom (background) in support of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran. A protestor was reportedly shot dead by police in Tehran as massive crowds of people defied a ban to stage a rally against the disputed re-election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

[NormsRevenge]

Good question.

Demonstrators head towards Azadi (freedom) square during a rally in support of
defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in western Tehran June 15, 2009.
REUTERS/Caren Firouz

[NormsRevenge]

I didn’t know ACORN or the Daley machine had a license to practice in Iran.

[Paladin2]

Simple explanation: Statistics, just like our next Census.

[nuconvert]

I’m glad to finally see it described as “hundreds of thousands”. Thank you AFP

[nuconvert]

“Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious”

Ya think? hand counting 40 million ballots in a few hrs - lol. Good try Khamenei

[wombtotomb]

aren’t we still waiting for the actual resolution to MN senate race? Maybe we should get those counters over here LOL, wait, we already have them, the little oaks.

[potlatch]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually, I believe they got the results here:

Caution: The pic at the link is somewhat vulgar in nature.

I warned you.

http://tinyurl.com/dd4b39

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The mullahs had a full schedule so they counted the voted last week.

[ChildOfThe60s]

They don’t need to actually *count* the votes. They just divine the *intent* of the voters and make the numbers match that “intent”. Democrats do it all the time.