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Published: 06/22/09

Imaginary Numbers in Iran's Election

By  Ria Misra - Politics Daily
Imaginary Numbers in Iran's Election

How do you create a phony 11 million-vote lead? That was the question that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posed to the Iranian electorate on Friday in one of his rare political addresses. The answer he was hoping to hear was that you don't, that the very size of the victory margin should be enough to kill off any allegations of fraud. Well, it turns out that one way to create a phony 11 million-vote lead is by having more votes than voters. ...

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