Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mexico election recount

  • MEXICO CITY — Mexican electoral authorities said Wednesday they will recount more than half the ballot boxes used in the weekends presidential elections after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was born in Macuspana, in the southern state of Tabasco, in 1953. He joined the PRI in 1976 to actively collaborate in Carlos Pellicers campaign for a senate seat for Tabasco.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • (RTTNews) - The losing leftist Presidential candidate in Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has demanded a recount of the votes polled on Sundays election.
  • (RTT News)
  • The political parties will supervise, review and watch over the recount, which will be carried out by the election institute, he said.
  • (KCCI.com)
  • MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicos Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) said on Wednesday regional election authorities must decide whether to recount the votes from Sundays presidential election after the leftist runner-up alleged fraud and asked for a recount.
  • (star.com.my)
  • GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Mexico's election watchdog has ordered a recount of more than half of the votes cast in the presidential ballot after the runner-up cried foul, Mexican newspapers reported today.
  • (GlobalPost)
  • Jacobo said the recount could be finished by the preliminary vote tallies, saying the election campaign was marred by overspending, vote-buying and favourable treatment of Pena Nieto by Mexicos semi-monopolised television industry.
  • (Aljazeera.com)
  • While the recount isnt likely to upset the outcome is prohibited by the constitution from running for re-election. Lopez Obrador, a longtime leading leftist and former Mexico City mayor, accused the PRI of overspending.
  • (International Business Times)
  • Election officials said those Electoral law did not permit a full recount back then and his request was refused. Afterwards López Obrador launched months of protests that choked Mexico City for weeks.
  • (en.mercopress.com)

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