Last ditch call for young Iranians to turn out and vote

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/17/wiran17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/17/ixworld.html

By Behzad Farsian in Teheran
(Filed: 17/06/2005)

Young Iranians were urged to overcome their disillusion with religious authority and vote today in an election that could alter the course of the nuclear stand-off with the West.

The government, media and the sole reformist candidate all appealed for voters not to boycott the poll. But student groups and some reformists have urged the young, who form the majority of the 47 million electorate, to stay away.

A statement by the student-led Office for the Strengthening of Unity in Iran called for voters to stay at home because the elections would be rigged by "clerical factions".

It said: "The emphasis by both factions of the regime on the need for maximum turnout have fuelled concerns that there will be rigging and fraudulent results."

[LightningFlash]

1. Better not have any Diebold machines.....

And get a REAL commission of americans over there to monitor the elections!!!

http://www.votersunite.org/info/content/newmessup-17.asp