Where Is My Vote? - pic

[Kadie]

A single photo that says so much.


A man holds up a placard during a rally in support of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran June 15, 2009

[Oregone]

1. It says they must have a good education system, being they are bi-lingual

Why so angry then?

[spanone]

2. were those leaflets left over from the u.s. 2000 & 2004?

[rurallib]

3. No pre-election day polls to compare to

I believe that is what the Carter Center does to validate elections - pre election polling and day of polling compared to the official vote count. Seems there are only two "democratic" countries where those are discounted or not used Iran and the US.
Am I wrong on that?

[KansDem]

8. I always thought the 2000 election and the demise of VNS wasn't a coincidence...

The Voter News Service was a consortium whose mission was to provide results for United States Presidential elections, so that individual organizations and networks would not have to do exit polling and vote tallying in parallel.

The VNS included major United States television networks and newspapers:

ABC
CBS
NBC
CNN
Fox
The Associated Press

A possibly unwritten secondary mission of the Voter News Service was to provide election results as quickly as possible on election night—a point which came to haunt the VNS in the 2000 Presidential election.

Wikipedia

This is the "official" (neo-con) version of what really happened in 2000. I really don't think the time zones had anything to do with Republicans getting out to vote during the final hour the polls were open when they thought Gore and won Florida...

But, VNS was very accurate until, for some reason, 2000. Then it "suffered" a setback during 2002 (software problems) and was "disbanded" in 2003.

It was replaced by the National Election Pool which had problems in 2004 because its data ran contrary to the re-election George W. Bush.

I think we see a pattern here...

[Captain Hilts]

4. Stealing so many votes in the home district of the other candidates will be the downfall of

the president's.

[11 Bravo]

5. At first I thought that was Minneapolis.

[scheming daemons]

6. Interesting that so many of their signs are in English?

Why not farsi?

Doesn't make sense.

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Maybe this is a stupid question, but in all seriousness.....

so much of what we've seen is in English. Are they appealing to the Western world with their message and thus using English, rather than writing in their native language?

[Kerrytravelers]

9. That was my assumption.

[tiny elvis]

10. Surely some Iranians

would appeal to Britain and the US, but what sort of Iranians would they be?
Have French news agencies shown signs in French? Are there Spanish signs for the sake of friendly Venezuelans?