Posted on 07/02/2006 10:53:31 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
MEXICO CITY — After a presidential campaign that exposed Mexico's deep class divisions, voters chose Sunday between a free-spending leftist pledging to put the poor first or a conservative pushing private investment and free markets as the keys to prosperity.
The presidential election is the first since Vicente Fox's stunning victory in 2000 ended 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. The vote will determine whether Mexico becomes the latest Latin American country to move to the left.
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Polls predict a close race between conservative Felipe Calderon of Fox's party and leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor. The PRI's Roberto Madrazo was running a distant third, ahead of two minor candidates.
Five governors and both houses of Congress also were being elected.
Officials hoped to announce a winner within hours of the 9 p.m. EDT closing of the last poll, based on a quick count. But they cautioned they would wait if the race was too close.
About 71 million of Mexico's 103 million people are eligible to vote.
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Thousands of those who missed out were heading south Sunday to cast votes at ballot centers set up along the border.
I wonder if they have to show proof of citizenship to vote down there?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
Now, why don't we have our elections on Sunday? Wouldn't that make more sense?
they have to show a voter registration ID card with a picture and an assigned voter record number on it...
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
and did I mention they prohibit alcohol sales on voting day? yep
We'll never see that happen in the US Senate!
I doubt the goobermint labor unions would permit it. I just cannot imagine a government worker (except for the great men and women in uniform) wanting to work on the weekend.
We should hold our elections on April 15.
LOL! Vote ALL the bastids out!
If you pay the double-time they would.
JJJ
< /sarcasm>
"We'll never see that happen in the US Senate!"
No so. In Indiana, alcohol can't be sold on Election Day. I believe Oklahoma has a similar law, or at least used to.
At one time there were lots of laws banning alcohol on Election Day.
Da WHO?
Mexican voters must show ID and get fingerprinted.
Thats right during the middle of football season. A better I idea would to have the election right before April 15th, when every has to pay their taxes.
I am looking at the lines of voters from my apartment window in northern Mexico. Each voter has an id card with their picture and various "tamper proof" electronic coding. (Much like a driver's license in the U.S.) Each voter presents the card and its picture and information is cross-checked to a book containing a facsimile of the voter identification. Presumably citizenship was verified in order to obtain the identification. But birth certificates are not hard to "obtain" in Mexico. The IFE (Federal Election Institute) is in charge of a "limpia" (or "clean") election. Some in Mexico are trying to make this a clean election. At the moment things seem to favor PAN candidate Calderon.
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