Posted on 06/22/2009 4:40:46 AM PDT by Loyalist
TEHRAN — Locked in a continuing bitter contest Monday with Iranians who say the presidential elections were rigged, the authorities here acknowledged that the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters, state television reported following assertions by the country’s supreme leader that the ballot was fair.
But the authorities insisted that discrepancies, which could affect three million votes, did not violate Iranian law and the country’s influential Guardian Council said it was not clear whether they would decisively change the election result.
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You'd think this was an election in Chicago!
Acorn in Iran too?
beat me by that much
Or any place that is historically dominated by Democrats. Does anyone remember the infamous Tammany Society that dominated New York City politics for over a century?
Exactly Loyalist,
Chicago and a whole lot more places here in the U.S. had rigged elections.
Should think before being too critical of Irans election, not too much more malfeasance than here.
If there was a true domination, I wouldn’t think phantom votes would be needed.
What about the many tens of millions of votes that weren’t cast at all, because all of the candidates were pre-approved by the ruling elite?
“But the authorities insisted that discrepancies, which could affect three million votes, did not violate Iranian law and the country’s influential Guardian Council said it was not clear whether they would decisively change the election result.”
I don’t see what the problem is. Apparently stealing elections by voter fraud is not illegal in Iran. Voter fraud took place, the election was stolen.
Let’s move on. Nothing to see here.
Chicago? Don’t forget Detroit and Philadelphia. Because of what happened in 2000 though, most associate election fraud and stealing with Republicans. Ridiculous.
TNCMAXQ
How are elections in Connecticut?
Here in Florida you quite obviously are aware of just how pathetic they can be after 2000 and G.W. Bush vs. algore.
Their next leader will be Al F’n Frankin.
Goes to show you, without Jimmah Carter keeping an eagle eye, election fraud reigns!
At least 200 polling stations across Iran had participation rates of 95% or above.
Kamran Daneshjou, the head of the ministry’s election commission has attributed the reported 141% participation in the town of Taft to the good weather in Yazd province, where the town is situated.
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