Iranian Elections, Protests, and Riots

It's been a long time since I posted in here, and I figured why not start again today with the major news story of the day.

Of course, I'm referring to the Elections and subsequent protests and riots in Iran's capital city of Tehran. The results leave a lot of questions in my eyes. I can accept that the incumbent won while garnering nearly 63% of the vote. What I find odd is that the results were reported within an hour of the polls closing, despite 80% voter turnout in a country that performs it's elections with paper ballots. Are you telling me that approximately 50 million votes were counted, by hand, in less than a day? Seriously? I've got a couple sayings that go with that: I was born at night, but not last night or, the one I prefer, momma raised ugly children not stupid.

In my high school we did elections by paper and they still took a couple of days to sort through. That was with a few thousand students voting at a set time. But 50 million people voting in different locations at different times and you finished your count in less than a day? No, it just isn't plausible to me.

I may not like Ahmedinejad, but if he really won the majority vote in Iran, then he is who the people of that country have chosen to represent them. But if not, if this election is rigged, as it at least appears to be to me, then the Iranian Revolution of 1979 has been rendered moot and the country has fallen into the throes of a dictatorship once again.