MASSIVE displays of popular anger on the streets of Iran – not to mention an outpouring of tweets and blogs – leave no doubt that many Iranians suspect they were cheated of a fair result in this month’s presidential election. While firm evidence is not easy to come by, this interconnected age makes wrong-doing impossible to hide completely. Statisticians around the world have been combing through the voting figures Iran has posted online, and then published their results on blogs and pre-print servers. While their “electoral forensics” have laid to rest some knee-jerk criticisms of the results, they have also…
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