Iranian Clerics Say Election will Stand - Could this Happen in America?

Iran's state TV reports the country's top electoral authority has ruled out annulling the results of the disputed June 12 election in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was named the winner.

A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted by Iran's state-run English language Press TV as saying Tuesday that the organization had found "no major fraud or breach in the election."

"Therefore, there is no possibility of an annulment taking place," he said.

Ahmadinejad's main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has charged the election was a fraud and insists he is the true winner. His followers have been staging near-daily rallies. In recent days, the government has intensified a crackdown on the protests.

Mousavi has called for an independent probe, alleging the Guardian Council is not neutral and has already indicated support for Ahmadinejad. - CBS News Story

As divided as this Country has become over the past 10 years, could what is happening in Iran happen in America?

I say not only can it happen here, it is perhaps inevitable. We have seen many elections come down to very small differences separating winners from losers. Combine that with the division and partisanship of our Government today, you can see the recipe for disaster.

Obama promised to put aside partisan politics and work together. Had this been the case then that would most definitely have started to reverse the trend. But as with most leaders, they are only willing to be bipartisan when it benefits them. True bipartisanship is when you say we have to do something about widgets, what are your ideas? Then they work together to solve the problem with widgets. Not, we have a problem with widgets and here is what I am doing to fix it, get on board or get the hell out of the way.

Until we can start working as bipartisan officials, we are headed to similar circumstances as Iran. We already have the voting fraud, more votes than voters, we have the division between ideology, and we are quickly reaching a boiling point.