Sham Majlis elections – 13
NCRI – Despite vote riggings, mullahs' own account confirms electoral fraud in the northern city of Tabriz. Massoud Pezeshkzad won the first seat by 105,000 votes to the Majlis (parliament), 8.5 percent of all eligible voters in the East Azerbaijan province, reported the state-run news agency ISNA on Monday.
Ali Ghafari, deputy governor in political and security affairs, announced that 201,000 were eligible to vote in the East Azerbaijan province, according to the governor's office figures published on March 8. However, the actual number of eligible voters was much higher than what was published prior to the Election Day for covering the low turnout.
Most Iranian major cities followed the same pattern. Official vote counts set the precedent of 10 percent of all votes went to the first winner followed by 20 to 30 percent for the rest of the contenders. This clearly demonstrates widespread electoral fraud nationwide. Despite all, Mostafa Poormohammadi mullahs' Interior Minister brazenly announced that 60 percent of eligible voters participated in the elections.
According to the eyewitness account from 25,000 polling stations by People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) network on the Election Day nationwide, more than 95 percent of Iranian people boycotted the sham Election.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 18, 2008