Mexicos vote recount uncovers irregularities
With a partial recount of the July 2 election winding down Friday, AndrŽs Manuel L—pez Obradors supporters said the recount was uncovering enough irregularities to challenge official results that had scored the election for Felipe Calder—n of the conservative National Action Party. And the trend, leaders of L—pez Obradors coalition said, favored their candidate.
If the tendency holds, even if it is one or two votes per precinct, then put in a national context … it would change the count, Horacio Duarte said at a news conference at L—pez Obradors main protest camp in central Mexico City. Thats why the PAN wants to minimize this.
The PAN, as Calder—ns National Action Party is known, produced numbers of its own Friday. With almost 60 percent of the targeted precincts already reviewed, PAN leaders said, the official tally was proving correct in three of every four precincts. Most precincts that changed did so by fewer than five votes, the party said.
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Mexico orders partial recount in presidential vote
Mexicos top electoral court ordered a partial recount on Saturday in a fiercely contested presidential election, angering leftists who are threatening mass protests unless all votes are counted again.
The courts seven judges rejected demands to re-open every ballot box across Mexico and instead ordered a recount next week at 9 percent of the almost 130,500 polling stations.
Leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants a full recount of the more than 41 million votes cast in the July 2 election. His conservative ruling party rival Felipe Calderon won a razor-thin victory, but Lopez
Conservative has narrow lead in Mexico election chaos
A conservative former cabinet minister emerged as the narrow leader in Mexicos knife-edge presidential election today as the country tensed itself for an unsettling Florida-style recount.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist former mayor of Mexico with a devoted urban following, trails Felipe Calderon, a pro-business, former energy secretary, by just over 1 per cent or 400,000 votes, according to preliminary results from the Mexicos official Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).
But the margin of victory is too small to declare an official winner, so the IFE will begin a vote-by-vote count across Mexicos 300 electoral
Runner-up in Mexico discounts election
Mexicos leftist presidential candidate said Thursday that he would never recognize the results of the election he said he lost by fraud, and Catholic bishops called for a week of prayer to heal the divisions widened by the bitter dispute.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador implied that the country could plunge into instability if courts dont order a vote-by-vote recount. His supporters demonstrated outside an airline in the latest in a series of blockades and protests.
Lopez Obrador lost the July 2 election to conservative ruling-party candidate Felipe Calderon by less than 0.6 percent, according to official vote tallies.
Leftists in Mexico Continue Protests
Leftist activists blockaded bank headquarters and called for a march on the offices of federal prosecutors, as officials recount some of the ballots from Mexicos disputed presidential election.
Continuing a wave of protests against alleged electoral fraud, dozens of supporters of presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blocked entrances to the main offices of three foreign-owned banks in Mexico City, chanting Vote by vote! and Long Live Democracy!
The former Mexico City mayor is demanding a recount of all 41 million ballots from the July 2 election, instead of the partial recount of about 9
Loser in Mexico presidential vote adds fuel to protesters ire
As he fights his election defeat in court, the losing leftist candidate in Mexico says he has been the victim of a broad conspiracy among the incumbent, election officials, other party leaders and business tycoons to rob him of the presidency.
The candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, charged in an interview Friday that the July 2 vote had been plagued by fraud and by widespread human errors. He made it clear that he would not accept any ruling from the special electoral court short of an order to recount
Protesters Barricade Banks in Mexico
Protesters blocked access to foreign banks in Mexico on Wednesday to protest what they said was election fraud while judges and troops oversaw a partial recount that could decide Julys presidential vote.
Supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador surrounded the main offices in Mexico City of U.S.-based Citigroups Mexican unit Banamex, the Bancomer bank owned by Spains BBVA and British giant HSBC. They closed them for several hours.
López Obrador, a fiery anti-poverty campaigner, narrowly lost the July 2 presidential vote to conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderón.
He says many votes for him went untallied while others were
Mexicos Tribunal Ruling Still Leaves People Wondering
Mexicos Supreme Electoral Tribunal (known as the Trife) has decided to rejected the full recount of the countrys 130,000 precincts, and only limit the count to 11,839 precincts or (9.07%) of the ballots, beginning August 9th. The partial recount ordered by the court will begin Wednesday and last for one week and the results must be submitted by August 16.
Narco News Al Giordano has a break down of the different scenarios that can occur and how López Obrador can still come out as a winner.
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Fox Caught in Mexicos Election Henhouse
It have been over seven weeks after the July 2 elections, Mexico still does not know who will be their new president. What is certain, the coalition Por el Bien de Todos (For the Good of All) continues to denounce the pro-government fraud, while maintaining their protests to defend democracy.
The partial recount ordered by Mexicos Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) has uncovered evidence of widespread irregularities. While the tribunal has not released any official results, judges discovered there were 49,000 more votes cast than there were people who actually voted in 11,839 polling places; ballot
Mexico demanding a response
ONE month after Mexicos elections uncertainty still remains over who actually won them, while tensions is growing in expectation of a decision by the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), which has the faculty of ordering a recount or even annulling the election.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, says that a lack of political will and not the law is preventing the TEPJF from ordering a recount of each vote cast in the July 2 elections which, in his opinion, would serve to clear
Mexicos electoral divide
If there isnt an agreed-upon translation for hanging chad in Spanish, it looks as if there soon will be. Mexicos watershed presidential election ended up tight as a tick, as Dan Rather would have said, and both stakes and passions are still so high that its hard to imagine either candidate backing down.
In fact, the race between free-marketeer Felipe Calderón and leftist-populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known in Mexico by his initials, AMLO) tightened considerably after the polls closed a week ago Sunday and the preliminary count showed Calderón winning by a margin of 1 percent. Inclusion of
