Comments on: How Fast Was It?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:20:05 +0000

It was the attitude of the Shrubbery that helped Ahmadinejad win in 2005, so people should have expected him to emulate his “creator”.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:50:44 +0000

Those who believe the results of the Iranian election probably think Bush actually won our elections, too. .-= ´s last blog ..Gotta go hug Wasaabi now.... =-.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:42:58 +0000

Like you say, panic is the only way to explain their garbage results.

I would have set up a spreadsheet from the last election and waited for a report on the number of voters in a district and played with it until I got a reasonable win overall, while losing in the obvious places. I might even have reported Mousavi leading in early returns from Tehran, and then slowly shift towards Ahmadinejad later when the rural returns would come in.

All I can figure is that they couldn’t find any significant number of Ahmadinejad votes in the first ten boxes and started making frantic phone calls.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:53:29 +0000

Wow. That is just amazing. Somebody had to have panicked -- the early returns of hand counting must have found a landslide against Ahmadinejad and a hasty Plan B put into effect -- because clearly this was a clumsy last-minute effort. The Iranians may not have the democratic heritage of Precinct 13 and Karl Rove, but they ain't *stupid*, not unless they're panicked anyhow... - Badtux the Elections Penguin .-= ´s last blog ..Thought for the day =-.