Posted on 06/29/2006 5:43:20 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES
VALLECILLO, Mexico - This town of farmers and cattle ranchers has about 1,300 registered voters. But officials had to spend weeks begging residents before they found the 14 people needed to staff its two polling places on Sunday.
Days before the hotly contested presidential election, observers say voting sites across the country still lack enough people to provide a crucial first defense against a return to Mexico's fraudulent electoral past. Many towns have been depleted, their able adults now in the United States. Of those who remain, many simply refused, saying they couldn't afford to miss work.
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Makes you wonder why people would be afraid to man a polling station
Is it a danger of an attack by the minority party? Or is it a danger if polling station volunteers don't massage the results for either side?
Jimmy Carter is the hombre for the job.
Mexico Struggles To Find Election Help
keep Jimmah Carter the hell away from there
What? You mean El Jefe Jorge Vincente Bush has not sent a full regiment of National Guard to man their election booths?? Where is Bush's compassion for his best friend and his election dilemma? Yes, I know, all the election workers of Mexico now work at McDonald's....
SEND JIMMY CARTER as a special Election Ambassadork.
Voting has already started in Los Angeles....they say the leftist has the edge now that the team lost in the World Cup.
"Many towns have been depleted, their able adults now in the United States."
Now that is funny!
I would help...but I don't have papers. :)
What was that?.. Rush struggles to find what?
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