Protesters in Mexico Release 4 Hostages

[Judi Lynn]

By Frank Jack Daniel

MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition leader said on Friday a partial recount of votes from the presidential election he narrowly lost has shown so many errors that the top electoral court will have to declare him president-elect.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist who claims he was robbed in the July 2 election, said the recount of 9 percent of ballot boxes was only half complete but inconsistencies from the original tallies already topped 100,000 votes.

Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won by 244,000 votes, or 0.58 of a percentage point, and his ruling party says the recounts are showing only minor changes in the results.

But Lopez Obrador, a fiery former mayor of Mexico City, said more than 40,000 votes had surfaced inside some ballot boxes and 60,000 disappeared from others.

He wants results annulled at those polling stations with the biggest irregularities. Many of them are in areas where Calderon won convincingly.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-08-12T025505Z_01_N11244254_RTRIDST_0_MEXICO-ELECTION-UPDATE-2-PICTURE.XML

[gorbal]

1. You should change the title to the title of the article

That is one of the LBN rules.

So according to this article, if things keep going the way they are, Obrador wins...

:)

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks, gorbal. Looks as if I missed. I had two articles I was reading,

and posted headline to the wrong one.

Too late at night, as you can see. What a stupid mistake. Thank you.

[Judi Lynn]

3. For anyone who would like to read the article connected to the headline

I posted in error in the original post, here it is, with my apologies:

Protesters in Mexico Release 4 Hostages

By REBECCA ROMERO
The Associated Press
Friday, August 11, 2006; 11:21 PM

OAXACA, Mexico -- Protesters held four people hostage for hours Friday, charging they were linked to a fatal shooting of a demonstrator during protests that have have besieged Oaxaca since June.

The Federal Agency of Intelligence said protesters later released the hostages to its agents at a local television station that had been seized by the protesters.

The protesters want the four charged in the death of Jose Jimenez, 50, who was killed late Thursday during an Oaxaca People's Assembly march calling for the resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz.

The leftist OPA, which has accused the governor of using force to repress dissent and rigging the 2004 election to win office, alleged Ruiz was behind the shooting. The governor denied the allegations and condemned the violence.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/11/AR2006081102159.html

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The correct headline for the original post is:

UPDATE 2-Mexico leftist claims election recount proves fraud
Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:55pm ET

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Very embarrassing. Sorry.