On Jun 30, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
'A 65-year old monitor in charge of a station at a mosque in the modest, middle-class Yousefabad neighborhood of Tehran told local journalists: “Compared to previous elections, we had a huge turnout. Two years ago we had barely 400 votes at our station. This time, more than 2,000 voted. We closed the station and started counting the votes. By midnight we were done. Mousavi had 1,600 votes, Ahmadinejad approximately 300, and Karroubi and Rezaei each had around 150 or 200. We were in the process of filling out the forms and signing them when the announcement came that Ahmadinejad had won with two thirds of the votes!”' Indicating that indeed, at least in this case, the vote was counted locally, as it is supposed to be by law. Note that on Friday night, the government did not announce that all the ballots had been counted. It made a projection based on a partial tally. There is no inherent contradiction between the government's Friday night announcement and a report that this polling place had not yet reported its results.
This is the most credulous nonsense. I'm really shocked that you're writing this sort of thing, Robert. The conclusion that most readers would draw from this passage is that the results were already cooked by the Interior Ministry. What other government in the world projects final results from partial tallies as if it were a TV network?
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