Iran Press News: On Tuesday, December 19th, Mehdi Karubi the leader of the so-called ruling reformists in reaction to remarks by one of the election headquarters officials of the interior ministry said: "According to reports some boxes arrived from the polling stations to the elections headquarters only today and one must wonder where they’ve been so far. It turns out that by the time officials found out [that some boxes were missing] their lead seals had been opened. During the counting of the votes some of the observers were not present and worst yet, some of the individuals who had been doing the counting [for years] were replaced by new people.”