Reply #196: But how could you believe there were 8 million ballots?

[daleo]

The whole point is there is no oversight by independent observers. An election like this would require international observers, and thousands of them, from truly neutral countries, if such entities even exist. They would have to be at every polling station, watching for fraud like hawks.

None of this has happened. The ballot boxes could all be merrily stuffed in the Green Zone for all we know. Do you really think Bush wouldn't fix an election in a country he lied about in order to invade it?

My calculation of the claimed turnout was just a way to make people think of how unlikely a high turnout number was, given the security situation, the complexity of the ballot, the inexperience of pollsters/scrutineers/etc., the secret poll locations, no car travel allowed, and the possibility of being killed.

The real evidence of how fraudulent the election is will be when the results are announced, though.