{"id":4172,"date":"2009-06-24T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2009-06-24T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T20:40:00","slug":"more-than-100-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/more-than-100-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 100 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Iran’s governing council needs a PR firm pronto. The political gaffe of the week comes from their spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, who said the following words<\/a> in a TV interview on Sunday:<\/p>\n Statistics provided by the candidates, who claim more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 80-170 cities are not accurate—the incident has happened in only 50 cities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In a democracy, if you can’t prove that there’s been rigging in a majority<\/i> of the cities, then there’s been no rigging. So there.<\/p>\n (Link via FiveThirtyEight<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran’s governing council needs a PR firm pronto. The political gaffe of the week comes from their spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, who said the following words<\/a> in a TV interview on Sunday:<\/p>\n Statistics provided by the candidates, who claim more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 80-170 cities are not accurate—the incident has happened in only 50 cities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In a democracy, if you can’t prove that there’s been rigging in a majority<\/i> of the cities, then there’s been no rigging. So there.<\/p>\n\n
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