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Fraud in the 2009 presidential election in Iran?

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Author’s Note: Analysis was conducted using publicly available information. The initial analysis was written as a report drafted on June 14, 2009, and then updated during the next two weeks as new data became available. The data used in the report and this article were downloaded from Iranian Ministry of the Interior web sites and translated and reformatted.

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Mebane, W.R. Fraud in the 2009 presidential election in Iran?. CHANCE 23, 6–15 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00144-010-0003-4

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