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Originally Posted by Azure
I'm trying to figure out that if they DID rig the outcome, why not make the results closer?
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Farideh Farhi had a good editorial on this:
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Why did they do it so brazenly? Why not try to fiddle with the results in ways they have done with the past , by voiding ballots, stuffing them here and there and so on and lo and behold draw Ahmadinejad’s name with let us say 52 percent of the vote. Because they couldn’t. The incredible turnout made it impossible for such subtle manipulation of results. This brazenness was deemed necessary as a show of force; to make sure that the chunk of the electorate that is usually silent in Iran but was turned vocal/political in this election again becomes silent, apolitical, and cynical.
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http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/alerts-from-tehran/
From Tehran Beureau, but probably reprinted from somewhere else.