Mexican electoral court rejects recount

[oberliner]

Deja Vu? Why did we not have this level of protest in 2000?

Mexican electoral court rejects recount

By TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer


MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top electoral court on Saturday rejected a ballot-by-ballot recount in the disputed presidential election, angering supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who have kept the nation in turmoil for weeks.

In Mexico's central plaza, thousands of protesters watched the court session on a huge screen, chanting "Vote by vote!" and drowning out the judges' statements. Representatives of Lopez Obrador walked out of the session in protest.

Tens of thousands of Lopez Obrador's supporters have camped out in the capital's center for a week, disrupting business and traffic to press their case that their candidate was cheated of victory in the July 2 election and to demand that all the votes be recounted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060805/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections;_ylt=AlVWkeMFSZjL8y473rDI1kUdl.0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[cspanlovr]

1. Sounds familiar. Now all of North America has been taken over.

[sam sarrha]

2. what else could they do with a gun to their wives and childrens heads

[RB TexLa]

8. evidence and link please

[sam sarrha]

11. the UN declared Mexico 'Morally Bankrupt and Democratically Irretrievable'

[JimDandy]

3. And a time limit, too. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

The judge "recommended that a partial recount begin Wednesday and last no more than five days."

This court was so worried about time that they took a whole month just to arrive at their decision because ostensibly they wanted to look at the issues carefully. Why not give that same consideration to the vote count itself?

Accuracy must be the goal of a count or recount, not time. Time limits make it more likely that accuracy of the vote count is not achieved.

[Poll_Blind]

4. More information in this thread...(link inside)

Specifically from IndianaGreen

PB

[CatWoman]

5. thank you very much for the link and info, PB

:hi:

[JimDandy]

6. Thanks. Was just looking for that info! n/t

[JimDandy]

7. NPR news is saying that only 10% of precincts will be recounted

Anyone found a link yet showing which ones these are?

[Robbien]

9. There is a thread going in LBN with all the links, half the districts will

be recounted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2437743

[JimDandy]

10. Thanks for that. Just got nudged there by another poster, too.

:hi: