Posts Tagged ‘recount’
Mexican Court Rejects Election Fraud Claims
30 Aug 2006
In a 7-0 ruling, the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), ruled that they had rejected Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claims that the Presidential election had been plagued by massive fraud. The court stated that López Obrador had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem from fraud.
TEPJF stated that they had thrown out the results from hundreds of polling stations where major irregularities were shown to have taken place, which meant annulling 81,000 votes for Felipe Calderón and 76,897 for López Obrador. Therefore, leaving Calderon with 4,000 fewer votes from his original 244,000-vote margin. The tribunal decided that the outcome of the partial recount was not enough to overcome Calderón’s margin of victory.
However, the tribunal did stop short of officially naming Calderón as Mexico’s next President, by law the tribunal has until Sept 6 to name the winner of the election to declare a winner.
Mexican election recount: more evidence of fraud
3:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
10 Aug 2006
The “partial” recount of votes in the ever-controversial, never-ending saga of the Mexican presidential elections is revealing “errors” in polling places, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos newspaper, which cited this example:
One example, at polling place 2220 there area 21 missing ballots, and in another in Jalisco state 80 votes were registered as being for the “Nueva Alianza” party when they were actually for López Obrador’s coalition, “Por el bien de todos”.Ricardo Monreal, representative for the leftist coalition said “there is no perfect crime, but there was electoral fraud against López Obrador and they’ve left their fingerprints everywhere.”
Monreal stated in a press conference that, so far, they have found tampering of voting stamps in 15 districts, “which is enough for judges from the Electoral Tribunal to reevaluate the decision that was made last Saturday to not accept a recount of 41 million votes.
Said tribunal rejected AMLO’s request for a full recount, stipulating that only 9% of polling places would be subjected to the recount process.
Via / 20 Minutos
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San Salvador gets an “alcaldesa” after much drama
6:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|El Salvador|Politics|Women · 3 Comments
17 Mar 2006
History was made today in El Salvador as the capital city of San Salvador elected its first female mayor, Violeta Menjivar, who claimed victory by a margin of just 61 votes. Menjivar belongs to the FMLN party.
Tim’s El Salvador Blog offers coverage and interesting comments from people who were present on election day and witness to the violence that broke out before Menjivar’s victory was declared. It seems that the recount people were taking too long, and many began to suspect fraud.
According to another blogger in El Salvador (in Spanish) the newly elected mayor claimed that members of her party had marched on the hotel Radisson, where the recount was taking place, in a pacific manner. The blogger himself disagrees and describes what sounds like an angry mob situation. Elsalvador.com describes a similar scene.
La alcadesa herself says “get over it!”:
The FMLN organizers set up a march to the Hotel Radisson. Did you like the outcome of that march?What I didn’t like was that the police hurt seven people. Because in all parts of the world there are marches when institutions don’t work. What’s wrong with a group of people being worried about dragging out the recognition of victory? I think the police went too far. Maybe the march wasn’t necessary, I don’t know, but I don’t think we need to make drama out of it.
A Latin American election without drama just wouldn’t be a Latin American election.
Via / Sources listed above
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