Rigging and astronomical vote-makings during sham presidential election is to such extent that during final hours of voting, belligerent factions publicly and officially accuse each other of fraud. Some cases of fraud are as follows:

– Collecting birth certificates of villagers including in Kerman and Hormozgan under the pretext of replacing them four days before the election. These birth certificates were used without permission of their owners and have not yetbeen returned to their owners.
– In some areas, such as Sadra and Nourabad in Fars, by cutting the electronic voting system, administrators disrupted voting in favor of their preferred candidates.
 – In various cities of Sistan and Baluchestan Province such as Zahedan and Iranshahr, Revolutionary Guards and Basij under the command of Brigadier General Salami, deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, did engage in vote buying from villagers and deprived people.

– Despite a ban on advertising on election day, Raisi’s agents appeared in voting stations and with talking to voters, wrote ballots in his name.
– Khamenei faction agents under the pretext of helping older people wrote Raisi’s name on ballots.

– Khamenei faction agents were freely filling out ballots outside voting stations and were entering them through their own agents.

– Ballots were sent to remote villages the night before the election and distributed by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Basij among the villagers.
– Election advertising and false promises including giving rewards in exchange for voting on election day continued.

Mohseni Eje’i, First Deputy of the Judiciary, said: “Numerous reports have been received by the judiciary in relation to violations of enforcement officials and public managers who did not have the right to enter into electoral issues. Also some campaigns, candidates and other relevant authorities had violations and those cases that are criminal offenses have been referred to prosecutors and are under investigation.”

Ali Nikzad, Raisi’s campaign manager, in a complaint to the Interior Ministry wrote: “As expected, incumbent government and its supporters in the presidential election, like during the advertisement stages, went beyond justice and law, and committed numerous and unprecedented violations.”  Lack of equity in announcing the names of candidates, not issuing entry cards for Raisi’s monitors, delay the start of work in some voting places, distributing unstamped ballots in some places, illegal advertising in favor of the government are among these violations.”

Gholam Hossein Esmaeili, head of the Tehran province judiciary, a former head of the prisons and one of the most people in Khamenei’s faction, announced the arrest of 120 people from Rouhani’s faction in different cities of Tehran province in relation to voting irregularities, including vote buying.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 19, 2017