The regime is desperate for a high turnout but six hours after the voting began, many ballot boxes remained almost empty across the country.
Rulers have even resorted to holing city council elections on the same day – a voting process which takes much longer as electors in Tehran must write down names of 31 city council members. Officials then force anyone voting for their city council to first cast vote their vote for a new president.
According to the reports by the Social Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), up to six hours after the start of voting, only a handful of people turned up to vote in the south Tehran distracts of Bazergan Street, Gomrok Square and Saheb-al-zaman Mosque.
At a polling station in Tehran’s 19th district, the only people present were 25 election staff and members of the security forces.
And in various districts of Tehran, electronic voting equipment suffered technical problems, with experts only able to keep 60 per cent of the system functioning, meaning they could not transfer date from a local headquarters to the Ministry of Interior.
On the streets, people are said to be repeating that the candidates are ‘all the same’ and do not intend to vote for any candidate approved by the Guardian Council.
The regime has sent out more than one million police and security forces in a massive clampdown on all public protests, and outlawed all public meetings from June 13.
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