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With 99.48% of precincts reporting, Calderon's lead is 0.43%.

Calderon (PAN) 35.81%
Obrador (PRI) 35.38%

Correction... Obrador was running, of course, on the PRD ticket, not PRI.

Please post a link and thanks.

Interesting how Mexico counts ballots and the appeals process.

Mexico.. Vote counting process

By The Associated Press Wed Jul 5, 1:57 PM ET

When Mexico's polls closed Sunday, citizens chosen at random to staff 130,488 polling places opened the ballot boxes and counted the votes, then sealed them into packages with their tallies attached and reported unofficial totals to the Federal Electoral Institute. The institute then posted preliminary results on its Web site from about 41 million ballots cast.
The sealed packages were delivered to 300 district headquarters, where elections workers used the tallies Wednesday to add up the formal, legal vote totals. The count cannot stop until finished; in the last presidential election, it took almost three days.
By law, individual ballots can be re-counted only when the packages appear tampered with or their tallies are missing, illegible or inconsistent — such as when votes tallied outnumber ballots distributed at a particular polling place.
Once the institute finishes the count and formally announces results, the seven-judge Federal Electoral Tribunal hears any complaints and can overturn the election. It must certify a winner by Sept. 6, and its decision is final.

With some 99.2 percent of the vote tallies counted after Sunday's election, Calderon of the National Action Party had 35.77 percent compared to 35.42 percent for Lopez Obrador of Democratic Revolution. About 150,000 votes out of more than 41 million cast separated the two.