Anonymous Iran

sina12345

A very reliable Iranian website www.balatarin.com posted an article about a man who found these ballots in the garbage.
Here is the link for the article (it's in Farsi): http://balatarin.com/permlink/2009/6/17/1621997


Translation
It says that him and a couple workers going to work found it on the DAMAVAND road. They found them in the thousands, ballots strewn everywhere, and people were picking them up "bista bista" [by the 20s]. He got his hands on 5, and there is a picture (if you click on the link INSIDE the link I gave you), you can see one of the ballots.
I can't believe they are trying to get away with this.
Here is the picture:

Unregistered

Thats just sad, its so obvious! FREE IRAN NOW!

sina12345

Also guys if you want to follow the twitter 's if iranians, here is a link:
http://tinyurl.com/n2vajl

Unregistered

If that ballot shows personal details of a voter you should blank it out to respect their privacy and ensure their safety.

I Ran Hubbard

Please remember to be skeptical of what your read. There does not exists more pictures then this one. Please post pics of the garbage bags full of ballots. There are many reasons why you might come across a few ballots after the election, so of the innocent.

Please post any other pics or news articles covering this topic.

Unregistered

True. This has happened in the US and other Western countries without being tied to a theocracy, so hold your judgement until there is real proof.

sina12345

I Ran Hubbard: The link to the article is in my first post, along with an english translation under it. Unfortunantly, this article had only one picture to show, but I'm confident as the days go by, more and more of these kinds of articles will surface.

Unregistered: Also it is a ballot, like any other country, ballots are kept confidential and secret, so there are no credentials, or names or anything like that.

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I Ran Hubbard

Thanks for feedback. A handful of ballots found may have innocent explanations. But I would be very concerned about thousands found in the trash. I would also assume if someone found these, there would be photos of them and they would have been laid out in one big pile for photograph for media, or as a record. I'm surprised those have not surfaced. It pays to be skeptical instead of taking one source as proof.

sina12345

That is true, but any tid-bit of information is helpful, skeptics or not. I was surprised as well that there weren't more picture, but if any show up, I'll be sure to post it here.

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GreenSe7en

The biggest problem with paper ballets is they are easy to burn, this is why at most we will see a "partial recount". Think about it this way if all the ballets can be traced back, why would you dump them in the trash where people will be able to find them. The fact of the matter is at this point it does not matter who really won the election. The corrupt Iranian government has been violently trying to suppress free speech, and has clearly violated the religious laws of Islam that governs the country, these protests are not about the election, they are about the suppression of free speech.