Ha. To be blunt, I don't think most folks on Hacker News are thinking about this in good faith. If some other country this community doesn't like a priori, say

Ha. To be blunt, I don't think most folks on Hacker News are thinking about this in good faith. If some other country this community doesn't like a priori, say the US, killed a bunch of its citizens after an election, there'd be zero chance everyone here would be rationalizing away statistical improbabilities in the election results. > Others have pointed to the surprisingly poor performance of Mehdi Karroubi, another reform candidate, and particularly in his home province of Lorestan, where conservative candidates fared poorly in 2005, but where Ahmadinejad allegedly captured 71 percent of the vote. If, for example, Broward County had come up 71% for Bush in an election, that would have been considered proof of election fraud around here. In this case, it's rationalized away. Poof.