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Many Iranians Boycott Elections, Despite Pleas and Roses

Iran held parliamentary elections on Friday, but despite officials’ last-minute attempts to increase voter turnout with pleas on social media and roses at polling stations, many people stayed away from the ballot in an act of protest against the government, according to witnesses, interviews and news reports. In the capital, Tehran, the turnout was estimated

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Calls for a Boycott Roil Iran’s Parliamentary Elections

As Iran prepares for a parliamentary election on Friday, calls to boycott the vote are turning it into a test of legitimacy for the ruling clerics amid widespread discontent and anger at the government. A separate election on Friday will also decide the membership of an obscure, 88-member clerical body called the Assembly of Experts,

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A Transparent, Open-Source Vision for U.S. Elections

Yves here. Many readers will no doubt recoil at the idea that the answer to bad and fragmented US election technology is yet more technology, even if open-source is arguably more benign. The article below hand-waves away the idea that paper ballots hand counted in public could work here when other countries manage that approach

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