Do you really think that the Guardian council would admit that this phenomenom took place if they thought that it proved that there was fraud or ballot stuffing?You don't address the argument at all. You just accuse Huato of apologetics. What sort of argumentation is that? Well I will answer for you. It is an ad hominem fallacy.
Cheers, k hanly
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--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fwd: Was the Iranian Election Stolen? Does It Matter?
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 5:17 PM
>
> 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
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