Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
While I don't now doubt that the votes were rigged, at least to a certain degree (The coup would hint at that), however Nate has disspelled that graph by showing the US had an almost exact correlation.
Or not. He's comparing the graph of Iranian results to a graph of results from random US states - not the order the states and their tallies were reported.

I'm not sure exactly what Iran used to determine the votes they reported in successive waves. But it seems quite unlikely they would report them in the same manner Mr. Silver used. So he didn't really show the US had exact correlation, because he used random states.

Of course, this analysis uses poll closing times and does have an almost exact correlation.

But I don't know about Iranian regional politics; perhaps there are reasons that regional waves of votes would not be like the US. After all, the first wave of closing times for our election included New England and the Southeast states, which are rather varied. Perhaps in Iran the regions reporting votes at the same time would not be like a random sample. So in this, being like the US reveals it as fraud. Though that's speculation.

In more interesting news: Tweets from Iran.

Andrew Sullivan has lots of info.

CR