According to reports from Tehran and many other cities, polling stations were deserted and the number of voters hardly reached five in many stations in the first three hours.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran’s network and social headquarters inside Iran reported from 25,000 polling stations throughout yesterday. There were 45,075 polling stations across Iran.
According to reports from Iran, the call by the PMOI to boycott elections was widely supported by people.
In a nationwide campaign over the past two months which started by distribution of millions of leaflets and dispatch of emails, a number of supporters of the Iranian Resistance have been arrested.
Following are excerpts of reports from Tehran:
Reformers purged as Iranians go to polls
Telegraph-13/03/2008–Anyone aspiring to join Iran’s parliament must be screened by the Council of Guardians, a committee of hardline clerics.
Few people on the streets of Tehran express any enthusiasm for the election. “I won’t vote,” said one 25-year-old student at Azad University.
“I don’t agree with those who rule this country and I don’t trust them. The situation will get worse and worse no matter who wins the election.”

Iran election ’results cooked,’ US says
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2008 (AFP) – The US State Department said Friday that “in essence the results are cooked” in Iran’s elections because voters are not given a full choice.
“It certainly is one that does not give the Iranian people the full slate of choices they deserve,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters when asked if the election could be fair.
“In essence, the results, whatever they may be, and whatever the processes are, and how they are judged on election day, in essence the results are cooked,” McCormack said.

Turnout appears low in much of Tehran in Iran’s parliament vote
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Only a handful of voters showed up at many polling stations in Tehran on Friday in Iran’s parliament elections, a sign of frustration with a vote that hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are expected to dominate.

CNN Reporting from Tehran
The election is expected to secure another victory for conservatives. The battle is among the friends in ruling party. .
An Iranian man: It is the fight between supporters of Ahmadinejad and opponents of Ahmadinejad within the conservative current.
A woman: If we vote or not, the hardliners will be elected. The majority will not vote.