Mexico Orders Presidential Recount?
~ The Rebel ~
2012/07/06 04:13:06
Mexico is recounting more than half the ballots that were cast during Sunday's presidential election, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) said on Wednesday.
Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during Sunday's vote, 78,012 will be opened and the votes recounted, said Edmundo Jacobo, executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute.
Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during Sunday's vote, 78,012 will be opened and the votes recounted, said Edmundo Jacobo, executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute.
The action follows reports of vote-buying, stuffed boxes, and voter intimidation by supporters of Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who declared himself winner early in the week after preliminary results were released.
His leftist rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, however, refuses to concede
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- ed 2012/07/06 12:24:19
+1this could be interestingreply
