Officials begin vote recount in Mexico

[Freddie Stubbs]

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 25 minutes ago



MEXICO CITY - Officials met privately Wednesday to begin a partial recount of votes from July's disputed presidential election as supporters of the main leftist candidate spread their civil disobedience campaign to the headquarters of at least two banks.

Party representatives and judges arrived at electoral offices across Mexico to open ballot boxes from 9 percent of the 130,000 polling places where the top electoral court found evidence of irregularities. Armed soldiers kept watched from rooftops and doorways.

As the re-count started, dozens of supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demonstrated outside the central offices of the Mexican-owned Bancomer and the British bank HSBC. Bank executives could not be immediately reached for comment.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Lopez Obrador loyalists blocked the entrance to the Agriculture Department and forced open highway toll booths during rush hour. Officials of the Democratic Revolution Party vowed to take the demonstrations nationwide to press their demands for a full recount.

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[goclark]

1. Good for them, my prayers are with them nt

[Kali]

2. Yes! the Mexicans have mas huevos than us gringos!

[gratuitous]

3. Or, Mexico's system is more resilient than ours

Remember back in 2000 when the Republicans said the United States would not stand if the election results weren't certified right away? They practically came right out and said that the country would fall apart if George W. Bush didn't get his way. And here's Mexico, weeks into a disputed election, just getting around to examining ballots. I guess Mexico is a stronger democracy than the U.S.

[WhiteTara]

6. and they have mass transit

We have to drive cars or fly planes. I want to take a train trip to the midwest. It takes 44 hours and 2 tickets with a sleeper room is $900. Yikes! No wonder our demonstrations are so small.

[w4rma]

4. I hear they refused to look at the boxes that are most suspect.

This partial recount is an attempt at a cover up.

[drduffy]

5. American citizens ain't got no, how do you spell it,

cojones?

[WhiteTara]

7. mass transit?