{"id":798,"date":"2009-07-04T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:29:13","slug":"ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/798","title":{"rendered":"Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UPDATED:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">An image I found on Twitpic from a source that has continuously released quality information shows ballots supposed to be from the election in Iran and seems to indicates a similarity of handwriting. I also saw a video of two young men filling out numerous ballots one after the other, but of course there is no way to validate any of this information. These images, however, appear to have been released by Iranian state news agency, IRNA.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Notes on the pictures from <a href=\"http:\/\/ghthirdeye.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=129%3A30-june-2009--photos-of-vote-papers-they-are-fake&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ThirdEye<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>1. unfolded votes! (they won&#8217;t fit into the ballot without folding<\/div>\n<div>2. pen type and color (exactly same)<\/div>\n<div>3. hand writings are very similar (it appears as one person tried to write in different form but followed the same pattern)<\/div>\n<div>4. a ballot from different election is seen (council election)<\/div>\n<p>Vote papers won&#8217;t fit in ballot box without unfolding, they are all unfolded before counting.\u00c2\u00a0 If you look at the other photo you can also notice that the hand writing are exactly the same, but the words are different.<\/p>\n<p>one says : Dr. Mahmood Ahmadi Nezhad<\/p>\n<p>one says : Mr. Ahmadinejad<\/p>\n<p>another one says : Mahmoud ahmadi nezhad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-816\" title=\"0duplicate-writings\" src=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1-443x600.jpg\" alt=\"0duplicate-writings\" width=\"443\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1-443x600.jpg 443w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1-590x798.jpg 590w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0duplicate-writings1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-817\" src=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh.jpg 800w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh-590x402.jpg 590w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Mahmoodieh-600x408.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-818\" src=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1-600x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1-590x415.jpg 590w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/123-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a class=\"FlattrButton\" style=\"display:none;\" href=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/798\" title=\" Ballots\" rev=\"flattr;uid:VigilanteJournalist;language:en_GB;category:text;tags:Iran Election,news around the world,protests,the war in middle east,war and conflict,blog;button:compact;\">UPDATED: An image I found on Twitpic from a source that has continuously released quality information shows ballots supposed to be from the election in Iran and seems to indicates...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: An image I found on Twitpic from a source that has continuously released quality information shows ballots supposed to be from the election in Iran and seems to indicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[69,188,70,189,187],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.2 - 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