Tensions Grow Over Mexico Vote as Opposition Plans Rally Saturday

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After a tally showed that the two top candidates were separated by 243,000 votes, the election has exposed deep divides in society, along class and regional lines. The voting has put the strength of the young democracy to its toughest test.

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Supporters of Mr. Calderón's leftist rival, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, girded for fights in court and on the streets, beginning with a rally scheduled for Saturday. Mr. Calderón's supporters and allies called on Mr. López Obrador to concede defeat for the good of the country.

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The European Union said Friday that there was no evidence of major fraud or irregularity in the election, Reuters reported. Election observers, who visited a third of the country's 300 electoral districts during voting last Sunday, "did not report incidents or irregularities that could cloud the transparency of the counting process or affect the results," said Ignacio Salafranca, head of the European Union team.

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Juan Huerta, 55, who works at a newsstand near a luxury department store, said he thought that the election was riddled with fraud. Mr. Huerta said he tried to cast a ballot for Mr. López Obrador, but was told that rain had soaked all the ballots. "This is a fraud against the people," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/world/americas/08mexico.html?hp&ex=1152331200&en=a502c5e6bc285f23&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[mtnester]

1. I think when you start finding thousands of cast ballots in the city DUMP

you can fairly and confidently call fraud.

I defy the EU to explain THAT away as no evidence of ,major fraud or irregularities.

Get ready folks...Mexico is about to EXPLODE!

[MissWaverly]

2. and Kerry had an army of lawyers on the ground

we are dealing with electronic stealth technology, electronic vote switching and alteration of vote totals, registration purging and deliberating miscount of the vote tallies in the manual
check. What did they expect, vote pirates with knives between their teeth stinking of rum and yelling yo ho ho.

[sam sarrha]

3. they found boxes of votes in the dump in mexico... just like the USA