In an upset, incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won re-election with 65% of the vote … according to the Interior Ministry, which Ahmadinejad controls. This despite an expected strong showing from challenger Hussein Moussavi, who in official tallies garnered 32%. The Guardian, based on leaked internal results from disaffected election officials, reports that “The figures have been accompanied by claims from interior ministry sources that fake statistics were fed into a software program and then distributed to vote counts among polling stations to produce a plausible outcome.” Can any evidence for this claim be found through statistical analysis? The…
In an upset, incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won re-election with 65% of the vote … according to the Interior Ministry, which Ahmadinejad controls. This despite an expected strong showing from challenger Hussein Moussavi, who in official tallies garnered 32%.
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