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

JC Helary brandelune at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 04:28:13 PDT 2009



> Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:


>> 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.

That is very common practive in France where, until 1996 when I was there -I don't know if it is still the case, all the ballots were paper ballots and were hand counted within 2~3 hours of the closing of the polls.

No magic there.

Jean-Christophe Helary



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