ELECTIONS-MEXICO:Conservative Calderón Wins, but Left Challenges Result

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33885

And other happy horseshit.

Sure of what he considered to be his victory, Calderón declared that there is no doubt that the election was exemplary, and has asked his supporters to be fully alert during the appeals process.

"We need each and every one of you to be vigilant so that our votes are not consigned to the rubbish heap," he said.

Police cordon a Nezahuacoyotl garbage dump where ballots and ballot-boxes from three precincts won by López Obrador were discovered on Tuesday.
Photo: D.R. 2006 El Universal

[samdogmom]

1. Hmmm--rubbish heap--does he know something?

What about the 2.5 MILLION votes found in a dump? Are there more that haven't been found?

[MissWaverly]

2. They weep tears of pity as they gobble democracy

they make elections into a mockery and then they act so pious, let's reach across the divide
and unite our country, time to move on. Mexico, please listen, since we fell for that lie,
we have lost 3000 of our fellow citizens, 1 major US city whose dead still lie like discarded
ballots in rubbish heaps, under rotting furniture and in livingrooms. Please do not listen
to this, it sounds so reasonable, it is the voice of doom. Don't go there, fight for every
vote, fight for the right of every person to vote, fight for honest elections. Don't give
in and don't give up. Look at us, we are miserable, our army is out of control, our congress
is out of control and our press lies to us. Please keep up the pressure.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. From the same link:

After Calderón's victory was announced, the National Union of Workers (UNT), one of Mexico's main union federations, announced that it would back "peaceful civil resistance" in support of López Obrador in the fight for "the legality of the vote."

More'n we did. :sadstateofaffairs:

[MissWaverly]

7. I have faith in Obrador

He is not going to cut and run. I think that if fraud is proven in Mexican, it will have a great impact on the credibility of the electronic machines. It will be proven that they
can be manipulated. They will have vote totals, here was the vote tally, here was the
vote count. X does not equal Y and no one will be able to spin that. I was told in Pa
in 2004 that to reduce the Dem vote, they simply unplugged the machines, when the
machine is unplugged, the votes inside disappeared, voila!

[sam sarrha]

3. they found boxes of votes in the dump in mexico

[MissWaverly]

5. they found votes in trash dumps in 3 seperate areas

all strong areas of Obrador's support

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Thanks for clearing that up.

nt (barely)

[MissWaverly]

9. Deja Vu, Man, Deja Vu

United Nations peacekeepers went to a Haitian garbage dump on Wednesday to recover ballot boxes amid allegations that the Feb. 7 presidential vote was marred by fraud. A day earlier, Haiti's interim government ordered the vote count to stop and election results be reviewed after the presidential frontrunner, René Préval, said the poll was tainted by mistakes or "gigantic fraud."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/02/15/haiti-election-060215.html

BALLOT BOXES IN DUMP
The daily newspaper El Universal reported 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighborhood on the edge of Mexico City.
Activists demonstrated outside offices of the government's prosecutor for electoral crimes on Tuesday, shouting against fraud and hanging a huge banner which said: "Ugalde: You deserve jail."
Mexico's election system has improved steadily over the last decade and is widely respected, but it now faces a serious test given the extremely tight presidential vote and the animosity between Lopez Obrador and Calderon. Lopez Obrador campaigned on promises to put Mexico's poor first with new welfare benefits and infrastructure projects, and has made clear he will not give up without a fight.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060704/ts_nm/mexico_election_dc

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Seemed liked the Mexican elections have been forgotten already.

:cry:

[MissWaverly]

11. No, they tried the same bs in Haiti

the election was overturned in Haiti.

[MissWaverly]

13. I think it is important to say ballot boxes

Because I keep thinking of that pick-up truck from the 2004 election that was loaded with ballot
boxes and "disappeared." I can't tell from your picture what those sealed pouches are from,
are they from the polling place or from the central tabulating place.

[Kolesar]

8. Mexican-Americans should demonstrate at the embassy & consulates

They have some experience in organizing from this spring.

[MissWaverly]

12. I heard they were demonstrating today shouting "Ugalde"

Which translates as "You belong in jail" outside the election commission. Very catchy slogan.