Biden Admin allows Iran to run absentee ballot stations

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This the new Bee? Please tell me yes

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LINK https://www.voanews.com/a/exclusive-us-confirms-iran-will-run-absentee-ballot-stations-in-us/7666273.html

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WASHINGTON —
The Biden administration will again allow Iran to run absentee voter stations on U.S. soil for next week’s Iranian presidential election, VOA has learned, prompting the Islamic republic’s critics to denounce the plan as absurd and shameful.

Iranian Foreign Ministry official Alireza Mahmoudi told state media on Sunday that Tehran is planning to set up more than 30 ballot stations across the United States for the June 28 vote to replace Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.

Mahmoudi said ballot boxes for Iranian absentee voters would be set up at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington and in New York but did not identify other locations.

Iranian state media say the United States is home to the largest proportion of overseas-based Iranians at 30%. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimates there are about half a million people born in Iran or of Iranian origin in the U.S., while the Iranian American nonprofit group National Union for Democracy in Iran, or NUFDI, says it has a higher estimate of more than 1 million.

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This is for the Iranian Presidential Election. Not ours. Please fix title.

I guess I don't get the anger. It's for a foreign election

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This the new Bee? Please tell me yes

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LINK https://www.voanews.com/a/exclusive-us-confirms-iran-will-run-absentee-ballot-stations-in-us/7666273.html

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WASHINGTON —
The Biden administration will again allow Iran to run absentee voter stations on U.S. soil for next week’s Iranian presidential election, VOA has learned, prompting the Islamic republic’s critics to denounce the plan as absurd and shameful.

Iranian Foreign Ministry official Alireza Mahmoudi told state media on Sunday that Tehran is planning to set up more than 30 ballot stations across the United States for the June 28 vote to replace Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.

Mahmoudi said ballot boxes for Iranian absentee voters would be set up at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington and in New York but did not identify other locations.

Iranian state media say the United States is home to the largest proportion of overseas-based Iranians at 30%. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimates there are about half a million people born in Iran or of Iranian origin in the U.S., while the Iranian American nonprofit group National Union for Democracy in Iran, or NUFDI, says it has a higher estimate of more than 1 million.

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I guess I don't get the anger. It's for a foreign election

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have other countries been allowed to have ballot stations?

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have other countries been allowed to have ballot stations?

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I'd be shocked to find out US armed forces and contractors have no ability to vote.

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Iranian state media say the United States is home to the largest proportion of overseas-based Iranians at 30%.

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poli board

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It sounds like 30% or Iranians live in the US?

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30% of Iranians who live overseas live in the US. Not 30% of all Iranians.

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This is for the Iranian Presidential Election. Not ours. Please fix title.
what’s confusing?

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The title could have more context. But maybe I'm just dumb.

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so other countries have been allowed to have absentee ballot stations in the USA?

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I did a basic Google search and found nothing except for how US citizens in foreign countries can vote. I have zero shits given to continue digging as this, quite frankly, does not have any affect on my life.

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Lemme guess: you saw the headline and jumped to a conclusion without reading the article?

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You should expect nothing less from MrLSU.