On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote:
> While there may very well have been widespread fraud, that alone > wouldn't be enough to explain away a 29 percentage point spread. A > strong line of national security scare-mongering is always good source > of votes in the less educated parts of a country. We hear a lot about > what is happening in Tehran, but very little about the rest of the country. It's easy to explain any margin you want when there are no monitors, no reporting of local tallies, and vote aggregation is controlled by a small group in one government agency. It's basically a matter of changing numbers in a spreadsheet. Regardless of what actually happened, it is pretty clear that the process of voting in Iran lacks the fundamental transparency necessary to provide confidence in the results. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
