After the official announcement [of the appeal], the guardian council has seven to 10 days to see if it was a healthy election or not," the ISNA news agency quoted a council spokesman, Abbasali Kadkhodai, as saying.
Another senior Liberal Democrat said he was "astonished" that Ashdown was offering his services in such a way at a time when the party faced huge potential losses at the election, and said he hoped that any money he made would be dropped into the party's none too healthy election war chest.
This approach would create healthier elections by encouraging candidates to seek out more small donors and promote competition among candidates.
The authorities say the vote was the healthiest election in the Islamic republic in three decades.
"The election process over all did not adequately reflect principles necessary for a healthy democratic election process," the chief of the observer mission, Julian Peel Yates, said at a news conference.
In Russia's last presidential election, in 2004, an observer mission reported that "the process over all did not adequately reflect principles necessary for a healthy democratic election".
Nothing would do more to clean up politics in New York than healthy, hard-fought elections.
Local elections Healthy rebound in projected vote share and 50-100 seat gains suggesting party recovering in its traditional local government strongholds.
Mr Modi's pro-growth government won a healthy mandate in elections last May and after a slow start, it has pursued its reform agenda more urgently in recent weeks.
Although Branch is a start-up, the company's roots do not come from technology, but rather from a co-founder's experience working in politics — and from dinner parties that involved heated but healthy conversations about elections and other current affairs.
