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Mexican Elections: Hard to believe there was no fraud

12:28 H | Topics: Controversia - Mexico - Politics

Mexico City's La Jornada newspaper reports that some U.S. observers find it hard to believe that Mexico's recent presidential elections weren't tainted by fraud:

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, which is comprised of economists, for the most part Americans, did an analysis of the data published on the website of the "Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación" (Electoral Tribunal), on which it found that, after the recount of more than 11 million polling places, "there was a significant reduction in votes" for presidential candidate Felipe Calderón.

The controversy swirling around these elections seems to have come to a head, and months later the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still refusing to accept defeat. Meanwhile, the CEPR says that

the analysis proves that the result of the presidential election "are inexplicably biased."

Patrick McElwee, of CEPR's research group, says that the results of the sampling should be analyzed to see how votes were counted. "We can't confirm that there was fraud, but it's very hard to think of any other explanation."

For those of you who are lost in the maze that is the Mexican election, take a look back at the various posts we've done over the past few weeks for some clues.

Via / La Jornada

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