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Published: June 16, 2009
Speed of vote count fuels suspicion in Iran
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO — How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That’s a key question in Iran ’s disputed election.

International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by officials, was fueling suspicion around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’s landslid...

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