Reuters: Mexico conservative says recount confirms vote win

[Eugene]

Mexico conservative says recount confirms vote win

Aug 14, 2006 — By Frank Jack Daniel

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican conservative Felipe Calderon said on Monday
a partial recount in a fiercely contested election has confirmed his victory
and he is confident a top court will now declare him president-elect

Calderon, who broke several days of silence in a bitter fight over the July 2
election result, said no serious irregularities had been found in the 9 percent
of ballot boxes included in the recount, which ended on Sunday.

"Not one significant anomaly was found," Calderon said. "On the contrary,
it ratifies … that we won the elections."

-snip-

It has to formally declare the winner by September 6 but Calderon said
he hoped to get the nod in the next two weeks.

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Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2312509

[C_U_L8R]

1. partial recount?

they only count rightwing votes like they do here?

[mom cat]

3. Bingo. They picked the precincts that were recounted. Shit is

gonna fly!

[Traditional Liberal]

5. Recount specified by the candidate for PRD

They being the AMLO campaign.

They recounted in those places specified by the accusations of fraud, made by the Lopez Obrador campaign to the Tribunal.

[tkmorris]

10. Bullshit

But nice try.....

[stepnw1f]

2. Nope.... RECOUNT ALL THE VOTES... conman

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. sounds like James Baker redux

"The votes have been counted and recounted...blah blah blah-nevermind that it's not the disputed ones"

[lgn19087]

6. Just another instance

of the Right wing gaining control of the world governments. I hope the Mexican people take to the streets and demand not just a recount, but a clensing of all the fascists in power.

[Joanne98]

7. That's a LIE! There has been all kinds of fraud found.

[Atman]

8. It's a Reuters story. It must be a fake.

Hell, the Republicans pulled it off with the NYT and Dan Rather. Now we get to do it with Reuters. It is soooo obviously a planted bullshit story. Even if the facts are correct, as with Dan Rather's story.

[gorbal]

9. This is coming from the conservative

Notice how they are not covering what Obrador is saying. Then check this article-
http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2010.html
and wonder at what isn't getting covered.

[fasttense]

11. Gorbal thanks for posting that article. Wow what a difference

in the two articles. Reuters does not even cover the coup d’etat.

"The anti-fraud protesters have maintained a peaceful round-the-clock vigil outside the halls of Congress in the Mexico City neighborhood of San Lazaro for various weeks, in which many of the current senators and congress members from the PRD party have participated. At 2:15 this afternoon, elements of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP, in its Spanish initials, the same agency that invaded San Salvador Atenco in May) attacked the vigil encampment, according to this wire report from La Jornada. (The report states that six congressmen and women were wounded in the attack; El Universal reports the number of legislators wounded by police at 11.) When police forces attack and prevent duly elected senators and congress members from entering their own governing hall, the term for that is coup d’etat."

Not to mention the fraud:

"In 3,074 precincts (29 percent of those recounted), 45,890 illegal votes, above the number of voters who cast ballots in each polling place, were found stuffed inside the ballot boxes (an average of 15 for each of these precincts, primarily in strongholds of the National Action Party, known as the PAN, of President Vicente Fox and his candidate, Felipe Calderón).

In 4,368 precincts (41 percent of those recounted), 80,392 ballots of citizens who did vote are missing (an average of 18 votes in each of these precincts).
Together, these 7,442 precincts contain about 70 percent of the ballots recounted. The total amount of ballots either stolen or forged adds up to 126,282 votes altered.

If the recount results of these 10,679 precincts (8.2 percent of the nation’s 130,000 polling places) are projected nationwide, it would mean that more than 1.5 million votes were either stolen or stuffed in an election that the first official count claimed was won by Calderon by only 243,000 votes.

Among the findings of this very limited partial recount are that in 3,079 precincts where the PAN party is strong and where, in many cases, the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not count with election night poll watchers, one or more of three things occurred: Either the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) illegally provided more ballots than there are voters in those precincts, or the PAN party stole those extra ballots, or ballots were forged."

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2010.html

The evidence that Reuters is helping Calderon cover-up the rigged elections is overwhelming.