Robert Rohde wrote: > 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. Sure, transparency is a problem, but its absence alone does not imply fraud. It hurts the Iranian authorities even more if the vote count is accurate because nobody believes them.
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