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  Posted By: ForeignPolicyJournal @ 07/30/2009 5:06:08 AM

  On the fallacy of point #1: http://hammond.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/23/the-case-of-the-mystery-voters-in-irans-election/.
  
  Point #2 is also a fallacy. Al Gore didn't win his home state when he ran for President. And Ahmadinejad speaks Azeri and has appeal with that ethnic group.
  
  For Point #4, see Point #3. Points # 5 and 6 require no response.
  
  Point # 7, the Mousavi campaign forced the I.M.'s hand by declaring himself the clear winner before the polls were even closed -- very "suspicious".

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  Posted By: texasutdemocrat @ 07/10/2009 12:50:49 PM

  People like you are what give Republicans a bad name. You entire argument seems to be that people are whining and complaining. The beauty of living in America is that people have the right to disagree. Based on research it does seem unlikely that there would have been a situation where Gore would have won Florida but there is still a clear parallel between the refusal of the Bush government and the leadership in Florida to even acknowledge voting irregularities and the actions of the Iranian government. People like you who respond like a child to discussions about political events which impact in serious ways the lives of everyone should be kept far away from politics. Go spout your childish rhetoric on the playground and stay away from serious discussions.

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  Posted By: gbe1_a @ 06/26/2009 5:55:05 PM

  As an Iranian, I'd like to thank you. But there are two mistakes in this article:
  
  First, "A break with polls". It would be better if you would choose "unclear/Yes" as the response. In the last presidential election, Ahmadinejad was elected in the second round as his votes was less than 50 percent of the voters. Furthermore, when people of Iran (and probably anywhere else in the world) seek change they participate more in an election and it is really unclear why (unbelievably) 85 precent of eligible Iranians have voted (declared to vote) to Ahmadinejad to keep him in power.
  
  Second, "Fishy Digits". The answer surely is "Yes". According to a newly published information by the authorities, there were many ballot boxes with exactly 300, 400 and 500 votes in them, which means people have gone to these ballot boxes in groups of hunderd people!
  
  Let me give you another hint to the fraud in this election. A few days before the election, the authorities announced that 46 million Iranians are eligible to vote and 57 million ballot papers are published and a few other millions without serial numbers. Yet on the election day, there were hundreds of reports from all over Iran that ballot boxes ran out of ballot papers. What do you think has happened to the extra ballot papers???
  
  The answers of these questions may help us to find the answer of every single Iranian key question, "Where is my vote?"