Thursday, June 1, 2017

Crunching the numbers of Iran's presidential election


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/crunching_the_numbers_of_irans_presidential_election.html
The presidential election in Iran is over, and Hassan Rouhani has been selected to a second term.  Already there are strong allegations of fraud and vote-rigging, especially from the camp loyal to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
The vote-rigging industry in Iran under the mullahs' rule has been a very long-lasting practice.  One of the most common methods is simply to multiply the true number of all the votes for all candidates, to legitimize the collective process for the better good of the entire regime apparatus.
The mullahs are also known to print a large number of voting slips, far more than enough, and place them in ballot boxes at a variety of pit stops.  This is, again, aimed at depicting a canvas of very large voter participation.
The most important example was unveiled by former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi in 2009, when he said the Interior Ministry had printed an extra 22 to 32 million voting slips.  Moreover, a certain entity in the Interior Ministry, known as the "Vote Compiling Room," is where any and all types of statistics are literally materialized.

Of course, this was back in 2009.  In this year's election, eight years down the road, the "printing" phenomenon escalated to an enormous scale.  According to reports published by state media, the number of ballots printed for this year's vote was over 200 million.

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