Excerpted from the Tehran Post Examiner:

In an odd procedural twist, Katherine Harris was called in to certify the 2009 Iranian presidential election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday.

Iranian elections experts seemed baffled by the little known protocol that called for a former United States congresswoman from Florida to certify the election results.

“I had never heard of that one before the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, clearly showed the passage in his very definitely unrevised version of the constitution,” one Iranian legal expert said.

“Who knew?”