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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jun 15 07:23:02 PDT 2009


On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:28 AM, JC Helary wrote:


>
>> 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.
>
In a country with a professional civil service, a long tradition of honest elections, in an open process, by a huge number of impartial counters--and then the final results take days to be published.


> No magic there [Iran].
>
Just bare-faced fraud.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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