The whole election was a joke. Afghanistan: population, 36 million; votes cast (after deleting 2 million fakes) about 3 million. Karzai's share - about 2 million.
So getting one in 20 Afghans to vote for you is more than good enough and would have been proclaimed "credible" and a triumph for democracy if the fraud hadn't been so blatant.
Ahmadinejad's 24 million votes out of a population of 66 million looks pristine by comparison - heck, if he got only the five million that Newsweek proclaimed its research (haha) had revealed he would get, that's still almost double Karzai's per capital tally.
Still, Karzai's a legitimate president and Ahmadinejad is a fraud who stole the election. It must be true if the New York Times says so.
The whole election was a joke. Afghanistan: population, 36 million; votes cast (after deleting 2 million fakes) about 3 million. Karzai's share - about 2 million.
So getting one in 20 Afghans to vote for you is more than good enough and would have been proclaimed "credible" and a triumph for democracy if the fraud hadn't been so blatant.
Ahmadinejad's 24 million votes out of a population of 66 million looks pristine by comparison - heck, if he got only the five million that Newsweek proclaimed its research (haha) had revealed he would get, that's still almost double Karzai's per capital tally.
Still, Karzai's a legitimate president and Ahmadinejad is a fraud who stole the election. It must be true if the New York Times says so.