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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| 'election' fraud in Iran |
| 2005-06-28 |
| some details from individual districts Polling District: Tehran - Damavand No of Eligible Voters: 50347 Actual votes: 49555 correct votes + 1061 spoiled votes = 100.53% Polling District: Tehran - Robat Karim No of Eligible Voters: 159593 Actual votes: 204603 correct votes + 4940 spoiled votes = 131.30% Polling District : Tehran - Ray No of Eligible Voters: 126984 Actual Votes: 269893 correct votes + 4926 spoiled votes = 216.42% Polling District: Tehran - Shemiranat No of Eligible voters: 24526 Actual Votes: 200900 correct votes + 5075 spoiled votes = 839.82% !!!!!!!! Polling District : Kerman - Manoojan No of Eligible Voters: 27118 Actual Votes: 29218 correct + 148 spoiled = 108.29% |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #10 It was worse in me Baptist upbringing, the powers of the Frist Baptist Church would subtlely change the timing of the service to foil my inner church watch. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-28 17:48 |
| #9 I'm no Catholic but several years of Anglican/Episocopalian services have given me an excellent sense of time, how it can stand still, reverse, etc. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-28 17:45 |
| #8 Bk Nope. You can say Algebra was invented in Babylon (where there was found a method for solving the second degree equation and there is also a very fast algoritrhm for extracting squatre roots called the Babylonian method of square root extraction) but Babylon was waaaaaaay before Islam. And according to Ibn Warrak all scientific "islamic" progress was made either by dhimmis or by people who were only nominally muslims (and often openly hostile to Muhammad's teachings). There was never a Muslim Cauchy (Cauchy was one of the greatest mathematicians in all time and an ardent Catholic. Ardent as in hearing mass several times a week) |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-06-28 16:27 |
| #7 Tom Sura 4:11-12 and 4:176 state [some of the] the Qur'anic inheritance law. When a man dies, and is leaving behind three daughters, his two parents and his wife, they will receive the respective shares of 2/3 for the 3 daughters together, 1/3 for the parents together [both according to verse 4:11] and 1/8 for the wife [4:12] which adds up to more than the available estate. A second example: A man leaves only his mother, his wife and two sisters, then they receive 1/3 [mother, 4:11], 1/4 [wife, 4:12] and 2/3 [the two sisters, 4:176], which again adds up to 15/12 of the available property. - from a part of http://www.geocities.com/freethoughtmecca/quranlogic.html |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-06-28 14:08 |
| #6 "the estate being divided up into more than 100%" ROTFL mhw, are you serious? Sounds like the Shemiranat district is just using the same 6th century algebra! |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-06-28 13:14 |
| #5 bk IMO, Islam's most important achievement in math is transmitting hindu numerals to the west, especially the zero there were some talented mathematicians (I think the word 'algebra' is arabic in origin) and, in fact, some interesting algebaic arguments have been advanced to resolve the anomalies in the Quran with respect to inheritance (a straight forward reading of a number of inheritance cases results in the estate being divided up into more than 100%). |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-06-28 12:20 |
| #4 sounds like Washington state's governer's election |
| Posted by: bk 2005-06-28 12:10 |
| #3 wasnt modern arithmetic originally concieved of by muslim scholars |
| Posted by: bk 2005-06-28 12:08 |
| #2 Looks like the Shemiranat district was a bit overzealous. I guess all that Koran studying takes its toll on learning basic arithmetic. [Remember Saddam's last election? No extra voters, and all the voters were in complete agreement. A model of unity.] |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-06-28 10:27 |
| #1 And people are surprised by this? Now if only Mr. Penn will report this. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-28 10:18 |