[lbo-talk] Juan Cole: preliminary reactions to the Iranian vote totals

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Sun Jun 14 20:45:29 PDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 23:05 -0400, Shane Mage wrote:


> Will someone of the mullah-apologists on this list please explain how
> more than 35 million paper ballots can be hand counted--right down to
> the last vote-- in a few hours.

The problem is that even if the vote count was a lie, that still does *not* necessarily indicate Ahmadinejad lost the untampered vote.

E.g.: Putin and his party were quite popular during the last Russian election... but they still made sure only the right candidates would win, just in case.



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