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Maziar Parizi
Structural rules under Iranian electoral law admit of arbitrary and fraudulent practices of all sorts. The mandatory screening of eligible candi- dates, the absence of signing sheets and the exis- tence of a significant proportion of mobile polling stations figured were part of the electoral process practiced in all nine previous elections – as well as in that of June 2009. In the latter, the candidate who was declared the winner received both a por- tion of the votes from mobile polling stations and a large share of the votes cast for the candidates Karoubi and Rezai. Adding up the figures called into question by our analysis, it looks as though this election would, in a best-case scenario, have led to a run-off between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi.
