WP:Obrador Urges Civil Resistance, police estimated crowd 1.1 mil

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Mexican Runner-Up Summons Support for Vote-by-Vote Recount at Massive Rally
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the runner-up in Mexico's presidential election, called on a massive crowd Sunday to commit acts of "peaceful civil resistance" to force a vote-by-vote recount.

López Obrador's exhortation significantly intensified his efforts to use public pressure to reverse his apparent half-percentage-point loss to Felipe Calderón, a free-trade booster.

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Mexico City police estimated the crowd at 1.1 million.

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López Obrador stoked the crowd with allegations of voter fraud, saying Calderón would be an "illegitimate" president. He repeated his contention that the Federal Electoral Institute, an internationally respected independent organization, rigged computers to ensure Calderón's victory. And he made a new claim, saying his supporters should protest because "errors" were committed in 60,000 of the country's 130,000 polling places.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600367.html

[jsamuel]

1. not a mention of the video/pictures of Calderon's supporters ballot stuffi

ng?

figures...

[rman]

10. The evidence is not in the 'ballot-stuffing video'.

The evidence is in the statistical improbability of last minute results from remote districts coming in at up to 100 to 1 in favor of Calderon, while the first 95% of results were approximately 1 to 1, several % in favor of Obrador.

[BeFree]

2. watch, listen and learn America...

...you are next.

[AnOhioan]

3. I fear that will be the end result come November.

I also know that nothing is more dangerous than a cornered animal, specifically, a chimp.

[marmar]

4. Learn is right...

Why is it that people in every other country will get up and demand their rights...Mexico, France, etc etc. What the f..k is wrong with this country?

[Tulum_Moon]

5. Let them riot

That's what I say. Let the vote stealer's in this country learn a lesson.

[ladjf]

8. We've become a land of field mice, fearing everything that moves.

[RagAss]

12. Great Line !!!!

[RagAss]

6. I wonder how long this stays peaceful ?

[BeFree]

7. Until....

..the jack-booted thugs who support anti-democratic participation kill some young innocent protestor.

[rucky]

11. I'm pretty confident the violence will be mostly one-sided.

Obrador will lead nonviolent civil disobediance, and the federales will do what they do.

[Rageneau]

9. This is what Florida should have looked like.