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

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 03:38:22 PDT 2009


Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:


> On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>
>> [Interesting comment from Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy
>> <www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> >. --CGE]
>>
>
> Ah, the fetish of "polling!" Naiman could write this nonsense about a
> *telephone* poll in a police state where no telephone can be presumed
> untapped and no "pollster" presumed not to be a police spy.
>
> 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.

As the limit of counters approaches 35 million, counting time approaches zero.

I don't have to count 35 million ballots, just the little box of ballots in my own precinct.

-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor



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