Iran election: Do you believe Ahmadinejad won fair and square?

[Liberal_in_LA]

[mwb970]

1. I have no way of knowing. /nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Me either. That's why the poll. Maybe DUers have more info

[WeDidIt]

3. Incontrovertible evidence of a rigging

a graph of the results reporting demonstrates that the reported results never deviated from the standard as results were reported all night long.

No election reporting happens that way in any country. The margin will swing to and froe with each report from each district. I think DUers have watched enough election results reporting to understand this is the norm. This demonstrates a very blatant and poorly implemented rigging of the results

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Thanks... good info

[WeDidIt]

8. I've seen another electino reported that way

Teh last time Saddam Hussein was re-elected, the same thing happened. The only difference was it was 100% all night.

[BlooInBloo]

14. Gah. rick roll link.

[WeDidIt]

15. D'oh!

Put in the wrong link.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. It's still coming up weird

[WeDidIt]

18. Yeah, wrong original link. Corrected now

Hazards of simultaneouusly posting on seperate message boards about different issues.

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. Great! THANKS!

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. lol. yeah but that's ok. ;-)

[Speck Tater]

5. Other: Insufficient data and no real personal knowledge of Iran. No opinion. nt

[AlCzervik]

6. my sisters sil is in Tehran right now and no one thinks he won it on the square.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Let's see if the people allow him to steal it... if the uprisings continue

[AlCzervik]

12. don't hold your breath.

[HopeHoops]

7. Face it - Iran is jealous of America.

We had two fraudulent presidential elections and now THEY want one!

[get the red out]

9. I want to know

Has Rove gotten back from Iran yet? :shrug:

[theoldman]

10. Unfortunately we may never know.

It will not make a difference if we do learn the truth. The religious leaders are in control. Until the elections are monitored by outsiders, they will always be rigged. BTW, who are we to criticize when our own presidential elections were fraudulent in 2000.

[obliviously]

13. Of coarse he did

and everyone will soon be getting their rainbows and ponies just like us.

[varelse]

19. I'm voting with Juan Cole on this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5842550&mesg_id=5842550

[comrade snarky]

20. It looks fishy, very fishy

Juan Cole has a good article laying out 6 reasons to be skeptical.

http://www.juancole.com/2009/06/stealing-iranian-election.html

The even distribution of votes is pretty damning.

[Sebastian Doyle]

22. Does anybody know the current whereabouts of Ken Blackwell?

This is Iran's version of Ohio 2004. :evilfrown:

[AlinPA]

23. How the hell would we know? Unless we were there and monitored the election,

we have no idea what happened.

[cali]

24. well, I heard that exit polls showed Moussawi winning.

[BuyingThyme]

25. As far as we know, the CIA rigged it for Dinner Jacket.

[DCKit]

26. They got too greedy and the spread was too big for plausibility.

Even Kkkarl knew better than to try to present 2000 and 2004 as anything more than squeakers. The exit polls were damning enough as it is.

A win for I'mADinarJihad works for the PNACers, the NeoCons, AIPAC, the LIKUD, the MIC and his own party - all of whom would have lost varying degrees of political and monetary support with a more moderate Iranian spokesman (which is all the power an Iranian President really has).

Fortunately, most of the world now realizes Iran's government is illegitimate - just as ours was not too long ago.