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In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes "Reappear"

L�pez Obrador Reduces Calder�n�s Official Margin to 0.6 percent IFE�s Claim that 98.5 Percent of Votes Had Been Counted Was False: Authorities Now Oppose Recount

By Al Giordano
Part I of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin
July 5, 2006

Today, in Mexico, begins a �recount� of votes cast in Sunday�s presidential election � in which the umpires are refusing to recount the votes.

Election authorities of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) closed ranks on Tuesday with the National Action Party (PAN) of President Vicente Fox and candidate Felipe Calder�n to oppose the actual recounting the votes. This, on the heels of Tuesday�s �discovery� of 2.5 million votes hidden by IFE since Sunday�s election, added to a growing body of evidence � and corresponding public distrust in the institutions � that a gargantuan electoral fraud has been perpetrated.

The partial �recount� began at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, in Mexico�s 300 election districts � each with an average of 400 polling places and 140,000 votes to tabulate � and sparks are already flying over the struggle to conduct an authentic count in the sunlight of public scrutiny.

Attorneys and party bosses of the PAN � whose triumphalism has turned to visible panic in recent hours � have orders from headquarters to universally oppose the reopening of any ballot boxes and subsequent public accounting of the actual number of votes cast for each candidate. On the other side, representatives of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of candidate Andr�s Manuel L�pez Obrador and many outraged citizens armed with video cameras have besieged the 300 recount locales demanding an actual ballot-by-ballot recount.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1962.html

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100,000 Protest Mexican Election Results

Saturday, July 8, 2006; Posted: 9:13 p.m. EDT (01:13 GMT)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5162244.stm



Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are uniting behind a "No to fraud" message.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on a huge crowd of supporters to keep protesting while he pursues a legal challenge of Mexico's disputed presidential vote count, and to help him prevent "a backward step for democracy."

The fiery, silver-haired leftist said he would begin presenting his allegations to the nation's electoral court on Sunday, requesting that all 41 million votes cast be recounted to expose fraud he believes cost him the election.

"We are going to ask that they clean up the elections. We are going to ask that they count all the votes, vote-by-vote, poll-by-poll," Lopez Obrador said, calling on the army to protect the integrity of every ballot box.

Watch as Lopez Obrador speaks to the massive crowd -- 1:48

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/07/08/mexico.elex.ap/index.html