On Jun 26, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Julio Huato quoted Mark Weisbrot:
> The letter from the Guardian Council also offers a number of reasons
> that a
> city or town can have a vote total that exceeds the number of eligible
> voters: some towns are weekend or vacation destinations, some voters
> are
> commuters, some districts are not demographically distinct entities,
> and
> Iranians can vote wherever they want (unlike in the United States,
> where
> they must vote at their local polling place). On the face of it,
> this does
> not appear implausible. Contrary to press reports, there is no
> admission
> from the Iranian government that any of these votes were fraudulent,
> nor has
> evidence of such fraud been made public.
Hmm, because Hugo Chavez likes Ahmadinejad, Mark has to write this sort of apologetics?
Doug