Top Ten Cloves: Possible reasons there were more votes than voters in Iran

By J. Thomas Duffy

News Item: Worst. Damage Control. Ever

10. Looking back over the old Shah of Iran's playbook to see what went wrong

9. Surprisingly, Ralph Nader got about 4% of the over-vote

8. Ballot-stuffing teams didn't stop to watch Susan Boyle

7. It was a sign, for Ahmandinejad to get almost a 2-1 ratio of votes, that he successfully employed Karl Rove's New Math

6. Ken Blackwell was seen hanging around the vote counting room

5. Supreme Leader didn't want to spend the money to do the "purple-finger" thing

4. It was a condition for Ahmandinejad to name Dick Cheney as the head of his committee to vet the vice president slot

3. CIA got wires crossed, thought Obama White House wanted to keep Ahmandinejad in office

2. Actually, some of the Diebold machines crashed, as a 3-1 ratio for Ahmandinejad was what was planned

1. Since everyone is using Twitter, thought that everyone got 140 votes each


Bonus Iran Riffs

Prairie Weather: "Oops. We screwed up. But that doesn't change the results of the vote."

Steve Benen: WHEN STRONG VOTER TURNOUT IS TOO STRONG...

NYT: Iranian Guards Issue Warning as Vote Errors Are Admitted

Robin Wright: In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences

James Joyner: 'Watching the Fall of Islamic Theocracy'

Steve Clemons: Khamenei's Mystique Shattered in Eyes of Iranians

GREEEEEEEEEEEEN!

"It's Now All of Iran!"

Somebody Check Jim Baker's Passport!




(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)