Mass Boycott: Only 9% Participate in Iran’s Sham Election

The second crushing blow of boycott against the principle of Velayat-e Faqih

and the fraudulent election apparatus that steals voting rights and the sovereignty of the Iranian people

Voluntary and compulsory votes in 58,640 fixed and mobile polling stations are about 5.5 million, equivalent to 9 percent of eligible voters

The PMOI Social Headquarters inside Iran, on Friday, July 5, 2024, during the second round of the regime’s presidential election, undertook to monitor 2,000 fixed polling stations in a sampling recommended by experts.

Direct and continuous observations by Resistance Units and PMOI sympathizers lasted for 16 hours in 31 provinces of the country, including 248 cities and 60 villages, and videos of all stations are available.

As in the first round, it was not possible to access and verify the 15,215 mobile stations that the regime’s Interior Ministry had announced, and everything was set up for large-scale fraud. Especially since Ali Khamenei claimed early in the morning while voting that “people’s enthusiasm and interest is greater than before.” Other officials, figures, and operatives, imitating Khamenei, one after another, set the stage for astronomical number fabrication and fraud by implying the same atmosphere, which of course has been exposed to the public.

The total number of voters in the aforementioned 2,000 stations from 8 AM to midnight on Friday night, July 5, was slightly more than 188,480. Of course, after dark, the situation at the stations was uncontrollable, and the fraud apparatus was laid out.

Nevertheless, assuming that the mobile stations are similar to the 2,000 monitored stations in 31 provinces, the number of voters in 58,640 fixed and mobile polling stations, over 16 hours, is about 5,530,000. This figure includes invalid and blank votes, as well as the votes of those who were forced to vote for any reason; whether through threats or enticements, some of which have been reported to the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and reflected in its statements.

Thus, the maximum participation in the second round of the fraudulent election is about 9 percent of eligible voters, and 91 percent of Iranians boycotted the presidential election of the Velayat-e Faqih dictatorship. The regime’s Interior Ministry announced the total number of eligible voters on June 28, 2024 as 61,452,321.

According to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance for the transition period of sovereignty to the people of Iran, this great boycott is a widespread “no” to religious despotism and the decisive vote of the Iranian people for the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime and the establishment of a democratic republic.

PMOI Social Headquarters inside Iran

6 July 2024

Originally published at https://english.mojahedin.org on July 6, 2024.