Not even counting

From Radio Free Europe:

[...] they didn’t even count people’s votes. They announced the results without opening the ballot boxes. It was sent as a circular to the state television, which announced it. Is it so difficult for the world to understand this?

That would at least explain the swiftness with which the election's "results" were announced - within hours of the closing of the polling places. Either all of this was an ad-hoc reaction by the Ahmadinejad people to an unfavourable development of election results, or a long-since prepared coup d'état - without anyone paying any attention to the actual votes whatsoever, except the people themselves. And now the world, watching...