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Limited recount coming in Iranian election dispute?

By Michael Alvarez

This is from the BBC, “Iran to hold election recount:”

The Guardian Council - Iran’s top legislative body - said votes would be recounted in areas contested by the losing candidates.

But a spokesman for the council told state television it would not annul the election - as moderate candidates have demanded.

The opposition says millions of ballots may have gone astray.

Monday’s protest involved hundreds of thousands of people and was one of the largest since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago.

Full post as published by Election Updates on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).