From Khabr, discussion of the IEEE vote:

I am not surprised by the results of the vote. The arithmetic majority in international organizations belongs to the sovereign democracies of Africa and Asia. If any Algeria voted that “the earth is flat,” the resolution would have passed by a majority of votes. And if Iran had added to the resolution that “the earth is flat because it was flattened by the United States and Israel,” such a resolution would have been adopted by an absolute, overwhelming majority.