[Peace-discuss] ] $10, 000 Reward: Show How the Iranian Election Was "Stolen"

[C. G. Estabrook]

This seems rather odd, Bob.  Is your notion that the reward will not be claimed 
and that you will therefore show by a sort of indirect proof that the election 
was valid?

And the point of that? To prevent the US government from gaining some sort of 
advantage over the Iranian government by impeaching its title to office? --CGE


Robert Naiman wrote:
> I will pay $10,000 to the first person or organization that presents a 
> coherent story for how the Iranian election was stolen that is consistent 
> with knowable facts about the Iranian election process as it took place on
> June 12-13 and the information that has been published since, including the
> ballot box tallies that have been published on the web by the Iranian
> government.

> In order to collect the reward, you don't have to prove your case beyond a
> shadow of a doubt. But your numbers have to add up. To collect your reward,
> it's not sufficient to cite press reports or anecdotal evidence of election
> irregularities, or to claim as authority Western commentators or NGOs who
> have not themselves put together a coherent story. To collect your reward,
> your story has to tell how on June 12, a majority of Iranian voters voted for
> other candidates besides Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yet this was transformed by the
> Iranian election authorities into a majority for Ahmadinejad.

> Here are the numbers you have to explain. According to the official tally,
> Ahmadinejad got about 24.5 million votes. Mir Hossein Mousavi got 13.2
> million votes. That's a difference of more than 11 million votes. So, when I
> say your numbers have to add up, I mean your story of stolen votes has to add
> up to more than 11 million stolen votes.

> 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/10000-reward-show-how-the_b_220705.html

> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/25/102230/708

> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/239