Officials begin vote recount in Mexico
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 9th, 2006 10:35 am by HL
Mexico’s election battle heads back to ballot box
AP
Excerpt
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – After a month of huge street protests, the battle for power in Mexico goes back to the ballot box on Wednesday with a partial recount of votes in a tight presidential election that has split the country.
The top electoral court ordered all the votes counted again at 9 percent of polling stations in a bid to clear up fraud allegations and calm a political crisis that has shaken Mexico’s young democracy.
Starting on Wednesday morning, judges, election officials and party representatives will spend up to five days checking the tallies at 11,839 voting stations to see if there is truth to the leftist candidate’s claim he was robbed of victory.
H.L.s Take:
If this would have happened in The U.S. The Supreme Court would have just said forget it everyone our boy is in charge now. Everyone would have just said “Oh OK” and gone back to watching American Idol.
