Monday - July 10, 2006

Mexican Election Silliness

The Conservative won the election by a narrow margin. The Liberal cried foul and demanded a recount. Cries of fraud and foul play are coming from both sides. The courts will have to decide who won the election.

Sound familiar? No, it’s not November, 2000 in America all over again. This time the greased pig contest is South Of The Border, down Mehico way. I blame Al Gore for this fiasco. He started all this challenge and recount crap six years ago because Liberals can’t stand to lose. They feel they are “entitled” to win public office and if the sheeple won’t vote for them then there must be something wrong with the voters or else their opponent cheated.

This will probably turn out to be another long, drawn-out process with enough dangling chads to keep everyone entertained for months. It will also more than likely be a preview of the 2008 elections here in America if the Lunatic Fringe here doesn’t hurry up and destroy the Democratic Party. Let’s hope our Liberals keep racheting up the insanity or else, like Mexico, we’ll be spending one day to vote and four years to count and recount. Aye, Caramba!

Mexico Candidate Claiming Election Fraud
—(NEWSDAY-AP) _{July 10, 2006, 1:30 AM EDT}

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s leading leftist presidential candidate asked the country’s top electoral court late Sunday to order a ballot-by-ballot recount of last week’s election, as his party turned over nine boxes of evidence of alleged fraud and dirty campaign practices.

The 900-page claim alleged that some polling places had more votes than registered voters, the ruling party funneled government money to conservative Felipe Calderon’s campaign and exceeded spending limits, and a software program was used to skew initial vote-count reports.

“We have proof that basic rules were flagrantly violated,” said Ricardo Monreal, a representative for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the July 2 election to Calderon by a razor-thin margin. Mexico’s Federal Electoral Court will review the case, which includes videos, campaign propaganda and electoral documents. The court has until Sept. 6 to declare a winner.

The legal challenge came a day after Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, held a mammoth rally in Mexico City’s historic center and called on his followers to help overturn Calderon’s narrow victory. Lopez Obrador isn’t seeking to annul the election, but to force authorities to conduct a manual recount of all 41 million ballots.

“This was a very irregular election and we are asking that they count vote by vote to legitimize the president elect,” Gerardo Fernandez, a spokesman for Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party, said outside the tribunal Sunday night as he waited for lawyers to arrive. “We won’t recognize Calderon’s triumph unless they legitimize the election,” he said.

Election officials said Thursday that Felipe Calderon beat Lopez Obrador by less than 244,000 votes in the July 2 election—or a margin of just 0.6 percent. But Lopez Obrador contends some of his votes weren’t counted or were voided without reason. He has millions of devoted followers who believe only he can help Mexico’s poor and downtrodden, and he has long used street protests to pressure the government and courts.

Lopez Obrador’s claims also include allegations that President Vicente Fox used government funds to support Calderon, the candidate of Fox’s conservative National Action Party. Fox has denied interfering in the elections, and election monitors from the European Union said they found no irregularities in the vote count.

But fraud allegations strike a sensitive nerve with many Mexicans. They question whether Mexico has overcome decades of institutional corruption and fraud that long favored the ruling party—the Institutional Revolutionary Party for 71 years until it lost the presidency to Fox in 2000. Lopez Obrador has sought to stoke those fears. On Saturday, he accused the respected Federal Electoral Institute, held up as an example to emerging democracies around the world, of being a “pawn of the party of the right.”

Over 100,000 supporters rallying in the capital’s main plaza Saturday chanted “Vote by vote!” Turning to his charges that Fox unfairly aided Calderon, Lopez Obrador said the popular president “dedicated himself to attacking us and ended up being a complete traitor of democracy.” Representatives for Fox and Calderon were not immediately available to comment. Fox has stayed out of the public eye for two weeks in an effort to avoid accusations that he was meddling in the debate.

- More Mexican Madness Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/10/2006 at 05:58 AM   
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