MEXICO: THE OFFICIAL PARTY REJECTS A RECOUNT OF ALL ELECTION VOTES

Globovision ^ | 5 July 2006

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

El partido oficialista Acción Nacional está dispuesto a que se vuelvan a contar los votos de las casillas electorales donde hay dudas o errores, pero se opone a recontar los 42 millones de sufragios por contravenir la ley, declaró este miércoles su vocero, César Nava. "Nosotros estamos dispuestos a que se abran los paquetes en aquellos casos en los que se acredite la excepción prevista en la ley, que es básicamente que no coincide el resultado en el acta (de un partido), con el acta que tiene en su poder el consejo distrital", dijo el vocero a W Radio.

The official party National Action is in agreement with recounting votes from ballot boxes where there are doubts or errors, but is opposed to recounting 42 million votes in violation of law, said its spokesman César Nava this Wednesday. “We are agreeable to opening the packets in those cases where it is allowed by law, that is basically where something does not concur with district law,” the spokesman told W Radio.

"Fuera de ese supuesto, no estamos dispuestos a permitir que se vulnere la legalidad de la elección", añadió. "Esto no es un asunto de opinión, sino de legalidad", dijo. Si se cuentan de nuevo los votos de la elección del 2 de julio, no será necesario acudir al Tribunal Federal Electoral (TRIFE), propuso por su lado el presidente del Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), Leonel Cota Montaño. "No podemos reconocer un proceso que presenta graves líneas fraudulentas, viciado de origen, por el grupo en el poder, que bajo ninguna condición pretende dejar la dirección del gobierno", advirtió Cota. Según el PRD, cuyo abanderado presidencial (junto a otros dos partidos) es Andrés Manuel López Obrador, en torno a un tercio de las casillas electorales (130.500 en total) presentaban "inconsistencias".

Outside of this situation, we are not agreeable with permitting invalidation of election legality, he added. This is not a matter of opinion, but one of legality, he said. If they count the votes of the July 2 election again, it will not be necessary to call a meeting of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE), proposed by the president of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Leonel Cota Montaño. “We can not recognize a process that presents severe evidence of fraud, tainted by association with the group in power, that by no means is pretending to leave power, warned Cota. According to the PRD, whose presidential candidate is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, (along with two other parties) all three each presented ballot box (130,500 total boxes) inconsistencies.

El conteo oficial de las actas electorales comenzó este miércoles, y es el que debe dar un resultado definitivo del ganador de los comicios, según el IFE. En ese conteo los representantes políticos cotejan sus copias de actas con las que tienen los vocales de las mesas. En algunos casos los representantes de la izquierda "tuvieron la desfachatez de presentarse con actas alteradas, como en Tijuana (noroeste)", aseguró el vocero del PAN, sin dar más detalles.

The official count of the ballots began this Wednesday, and it (Instituto Federal Electoral – IFE) is the one that should give the definitive result of who is the winner of the process, according to the IFE. In this count the political representatives are comparing their ballot records with those that the voting officials have. In some cases, the leftist representatives “had the audacity to present altered ballots, as they did in Tijuana (northeast)”, assured the PAN spokesman, with giving more details.

[conservative in nyc]

Yesterday it was votes from some of the more remote areas that put Calderon over the top, and those, also, did not come in until fairly late.

Not exactly. Calderon was on top. The votes from the more remote areas that were trickling in at the end favored neither Calderon nor ObraGore, but the PRI dinosaur. And Calderon's lead shrunk from 1% to .6% when the questionable precints were included.

This is getting into scary territory. Unless whole PAN-friendly Mexican states are holding back all of their results, it's going to be difficult to make up 3% points with a little less than 25% of the vote still to come.

[SAJ]

Hmmm. Time for a refresher course, evidently.

Just btw, here's the current betting book on tradesports.com -- which, please note, had the Sunday results dead smack right well before even CME/IMM Mexican Peso on GLOBEX.

Contract BQty Bid Offer AQty Last Vol   Chge 

Trade MX06.PRES.LOPEZOBRADOR 
           1  12.0 15.0   2  14.0 5991  +7.5 

Trade MX06.PRES.MADRAZO 
          41   0.3  0.6   5   0.3 3476  +0.1 

Trade MX06.PRES.CALDERON 
          10  85.1 88.0  10  76.0 6033 -19.0 

ObraGore (wonderful sobriquet!) has been as high as 21 bid w/in the past 2 hours.

Thanks yet again for all the info!

[California Patriot]

I think it's all over for Calderon.

[conservative in nyc]

My Spanish stinks, but I think Calderon's people are saying that the vote from the pro-PAN states hasn't been tabulated yet:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/360345.html

[California Patriot]

Why would that be? Are they all at the end of the alphabet? No.

[shield]

bttt

[conservative in nyc]

Why would that be? Are they all at the end of the alphabet? No.

I have no idea. Perhaps for the same reason Philadelphia always comes in before the rest of PA, or Detroit comes in after the rest of Michigan - that's the way it is.

I agree that this isn't looking good for Calderon.

[Draco]

Going on the record here; Calderon will win the election by nearly the same margin as the "fast count" that was conducted Sunday.

[shield]

You're right.

[California Patriot]

You are way, way out on a limb. We will have to buy you a Miller, or a Corona, if you're right.

[shield]

Translated:

It diminishes BREAD percentage that give advantage to AMLO We yes counted with the totality of acts and Felipe wins by a good amount of votes, says the operative coordinator of the campaign of the panista - To A To + Writing the UNIVERSAL.com.mx the Universal City of Mexico Wednesday 5 of 2006 July the 18:45 operative coordinator of the campaign of Felipe Calderón, Juan Camilo Mouriño, said that although the tendency in the count of districts is favoring to the candidate of the coalition By the Good of All, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, reiterated that still they lack enough votes to compute. "We yes counted with the totality of acts and Felipe wins by a good amount of votes, does not stop being a closed election but Felipe wins", said during a press conference in the national seat of the BREAD. "They know perfectly that they lost the election", Mouriño said, that hoped that the coalition By the Good of All decides on the moderation to give value to the democracy. It argued that the numbers that at the moment appear in Internet do not favor Felipe Calderón because the results have not arrived from the states that favor to him.

[conservative in nyc]

Thanks. PAN=BREAD when literally translated.

[California Patriot]

"does not stop being a closed election" ?

[conservative in nyc]

PAN's claiming that the states still out favor PAN:

De acuerdo con un reporte del PAN en los estados donde López Obrador ganó, los porcentajes de contabilidad de actas son, entre otros: En Hidalgo, 97.05%; en Zacatecas, 94.57%, en el Estado de México, 88.32%, en Guerrero, 86.56%; Campeche, 83.71%; mientras que el que menos avance tiene es Morelos con el 64.55%.
(These are the pro-PRD states, which have been mainly counted)

En contraparte, en los estados donde ganó Calderón el avance es menor, en San Luis Potosí, es de 87.43%, en Coahuila, 85.39%,; en Jalisco, 77.07%; Tamaulipas, 76.46%, mientras que en los que menos avance se tiene son Colima con 17.11%, Baja California con 37.20%, Sonora con 37.95% y Durango con 39.11%.
(These are the pro-PAN states, which haven't been

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/360358.html

[California Patriot]

We'd better hope those last four states are really big.
As it is, the figures don't tell us much.

[conservative in nyc]

Sonora's the largest, and Calderon took it by a little under 200,000 votes in the preliminaries. Baja California went to the PAN by a little over 200,000 votes. Colima is smaller, but favored the PAN by about 43,000.

[conservative in nyc]

Actually, Baja and Sonora are both about the same size. Durango (the 4th least in) favored PAN by about 100,000.

[Draco]

Thanks for that update NYC Conservative. Sonora (where I type this from) is strongly for PAN; so are many of the other locations noted, some more, some less. Somebody is going to owe me a Tecate.

[conservative in nyc]

And then.. AMLO called the lawyers...

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/360367.html

[livius]

Thanks for the information.