At 09:57 PM 6/26/2009, Michael Smith wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
>Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > So in Kurdestan province, where Ahmadinejad went from 22,353
> > votes in 2005 to 315,689 votes in 2009 -- an increase of over 1400%
>
>This is a very unilluminating -- I'm tempted to say "silly" --
>way of stating the results. "An increase of 1400%", indeed.
>
>In Kurdestan -- which Chatham House can't figure out how to spell
>consistently -- A. is said to have gone from 6% of the vote in
>'05 to 53% in '09. This on a 72% increase in turnout.
>
>Different field, different circumstances, four more years of incumbency.
>
>A striking result, certainly. But evidence of fraud? Hardly. Gotta do
>better than that.
>
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