Monday, June 22, 2009

Voting Irregularities in Iran's Election

Turns out, the protesters have a case. The Times:

"Even so, Iran’s most senior panel of election monitors, in the most sweeping acknowledgment that election was flawed, said Monday that the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters, according to a state television report.

The discrepancies could affect some three million ballots of what the government says was 40 million cast, giving the official victory to the incumbent president (Ahmadinejad)"

That is pretty major. Do the math. 3 is what percent of 40. That's 13% of the votes cast. That is a MAJOR discrepancy. What does the commission plan to do? Nothing. They said this would not change the results.

That doesn't matter. Also, that is assuming this is the ONLY discrepancy.