This is fairly conclusive evidence of election fraud in Iran, as if anyone needed it.
Faulty Election Data
By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 13 June 2009
[TEHRAN BUREAU] Iran's Interior Ministry has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of yesterday's election. This has been rejected by all the three opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad, Messrs Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahdi Karroubi, and Mohsen Rezaaee.
The best evidence for the validity of the arguments of the three opponents of the President for rejecting the results declared by the Interior Ministry is the data the Ministry itself has issued. In the chart below, compiled based on the data released by the Ministry and announced by Iran's national television, a perfect linear relation between the votes received by the President and Mir Hossein Mousavi has been maintained, and the President's vote is always half of the President's. The vertical axis (y) shows Mr. Mousavi's votes, and the horizontal (x) the President's. R^2 shows the correlation coefficient: the closer it is to 1.0, the more perfect is the fit, and it is 0.9995, as close to 1.0 as possible for any type of data.
Statistically and mathematically, it is impossible to maintain such perfect linear relations between the votes of any two candidates in any election — and at all stages of vote counting. This is particularly true about Iran, a large country with a variety of ethnic groups who usually vote for a candidate who is ethnically one of their own. For example, in the present elections, Mr. Mousavi is an Azeri and speaks Turkish. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all the eligible voters in Iran and in his trips to Azerbaijan province, where most of the Azeri population lives, Mr. Mousavi had been greeted by huge rallies in support of his campaign. Likewise, Mr. Karroubi, the other reformist candidate, is a Lor. But according to the data released by Iran's Interior Ministry, in both cases, Mr. Ahmadinejad has far outdone both candidates in their own provinces of birth and among their own ethnic populations.
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Are you serious? "As if anyone needed it"?
So in this modern age we live in it is no longer required to have proof of anything? That doesn't make any sense. We ALWAYS need proof. We especially need proof when it means the difference between life and death for somebody. And in this whole mess that has come about there better damn well be some proof.
Firstly, if you check this link you will see that your "proof" is no proof at all:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/statistical-evidence-does-not-prove.html
Secondly, look at this link for the real graph representing the results of the Iran election:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/iranian-election-results-by-province.html
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