NYT: Mexican Court Rejects Election Fraud Challenges

[DeepModem Mom]

Mexican Court Rejects Election Fraud Challenges
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: August 28, 2006

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 28 — Felipe Calderón seemed virtually assured of being named president of Mexico next week after the country’s highest electoral tribunal today threw out legal challenges from his leftist opponent, who claims that widespread fraud warped the results of last month’s national election.

The seven-member tribunal stopped short of officially naming Mr. Calderón, a conservative, the president-elect. But it ruled unanimously that the leftist presidential candidate, Ándres Manuel López Obrador, had failed to prove that irregularities in many of the polling places stemmed from fraud, nor had he proven that the errors affected him more than his opponent.

The judges said in open court today that the tribunal had ordered the votes from scores of polling places annulled for irregularities found during a partial recount, but that the final result would not change. They also made it clear they found no evidence of fraud.

“Based on all the annulments that were deemed necessary, all the parties lost a considerable number of votes, but that did not affect the result,” Magistrate José Alejandro Luna Ramos said.

Mr. López Obrador, 53, a leftist and former mayor of Mexico City who favors spending more on the poor, has declared he will not accept the ruling, calling it part of a conspiracy to rob him of victory....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/americas/28cnd-mexico.html?hp&ex=1156824000&en=febdbcc5e379a14f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[dipsydoodle]

1. Another link too

If López Obrador’s foes are counting on a long, drawn-out legal tussle that will discourage the faithful and eventually reduce his support to a handful of diehard losers, they have grievously miscalculated the energy and breadth of the leftist’s crusade to "clean up" the 2006 election.

http://www.latinamericapress.org/Article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=4773

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Thanks, edwardlindy! nt

[go west young man]

3. This article basically acknowledges that errors are

obvious at all polling stations. The Mexican people are being screwed just as we were. If they wanted to do the right thing they would just recount ALL the votes. They don't want to do the right thing. The question is "will Mexico bend over and take their royal screwing like we did?" I hope not. I hope they have more backbone than us and fight for their country.

[Vidar]

4. All the best to Obrador & his courageous supporters.

[Peace Patriot]

5. I don't believe that, with only a .06 supposed lead for Calderon, the many

election "irregularities" didn't change the numbers. Those "irregularities" included highly fiddled initial returns from the first count from which Calderon's lead was reduced TO .06, in a re-tabulation (not a recount) that Lopez Obrador and his supporters insisted on, and false reporting by the central electronic tabulation system in which Calderon's brother had an interest. What this means to me is that the election commission and this election tribunal are dishonest. Calderon/Fox are no different from our own Bush bastards who would do anything to "win"--to keep power, to loot the poor. The poor, the disenfranchised and unrepresented, and all the victims of NAFTA far outnumber the greedbags and fascists who support Calderon, just as the great progressive majority in the U.S. has all along outnumbered the Bush junta's rightwing supporters. There is just no way that either of these sets of fascists are representative of their countries' majorities. They "win" by lying, cheating, stealing votes, "swiftboating," grabbing all power they can get their filthy hands on, throwing their weight around, financial advantage, and contempt for the law, for democracy, and for the will of the people. The struggle there is the same as the struggle here. We may need to protest in a different way than Lopez Obrador's supporters, but we are kindred.

Here, I think we have to recognize that Bushite corporations gaining control of our election system, with electronic voting machines and central tabulators, using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming codes, with virtually no audit/recount controls, WAS the fascist coup. It occurred during the 2002-2004 period, as a result of a bill in the Anthrax Congress, engineered by the Tom Delay and Bob Ney (now indicted or resigned in bribery scandals), providing a nearly $4 billion boondoggle to fast-track these extremely insecure and insider hackable vote counting systems all over the country. We MUST get rid of them. These machines ARE the problem. They have, in essence, taken away our right to vote, and we MUST get it back. This is still doable at the state/local level, where decisions about voting systems are still made, and where ordinary people still have some influence. One strategy--and I think a good one--is to BOYCOTT the machines this November. Vote by Absentee Ballot. FLOOD election officials with MOUNTAINS of AB votes, and FORCE reform NOW. AB votes are not 'safe,' and will NOT give us accurate vote counts this fall, but if enough people do it (and many are--it's up to 50% in Los Angeles, where one of the worse Diebold shills--Connie McCormack--is in charge of elections), we CAN force these corrupt or stupid election officials to the table, and demand TRANSPARENT vote counting.

Bust the Machines--VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT this November!

[fasttense]

6. This refusal to re-count 100% of the vote is a transparent

attempt to hide the vote rigging. The bushes did it in the US in 2000 and in 2004 and it seems Calderón with the help of the electoral tribunal will do it in Mexico.

When an election winner goes around touting the legitimacy of a close election and refuses to recount all the votes, then you know it was rigged.

[hogwyld]

7. If the conservative idiots aren't careful

They could have the entire country in flames around their gated communities.

[dipsydoodle]

8. BBC link to subject

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5293796.stm

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