Tin Sombreros? PRD Denounces Presumed Cybernetic Manipulation of Mexico's Vote Count (Translation)

eluniversal.com.mx ^ | July 7, 2006 | Fabiola Cancino ( translated by self )

[StJacques]

Wait till the DUmmies get a hold of this! LOL!

In a more serious vein, I can just see López Obrador in front of that demonstration tomorrow holding up pieces of paper claiming that they show that the election was rigged by evil computer geeks and shouting "¡Tenemos la prueba!" (we have the proof) and the crowd will eat it up, and worse, they will believe it.

There's nothing like a good conspiracy theory to spin everything out of control.

[BenLurkin]

I suspect that those pundits who have been congratulating Mexico on the orderly passing of this election may have been just a bit premature.

[StJacques]

Another Mexican election ping here.

Once again, for any of you who may be just arriving, I have included a unique keyword with all of my posted translations on the Mexican elections to enable you to use the "keyword" search option in the forum to track them down.

The keyword is "STJTRANSLATION".

[xcamel]

the "cartoony" stuff starts up quickly...
will it be aliens or nazis?

[norton]

"Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation"

Somebody has been watching WAY too many Star Wars reruns.

[the invisib1e hand]

I suspect that those pundits who have been congratulating Mexico on the orderly passing of this election may have been just a bit premature.

yeah, well...we should all be ashamed to say that we haven't fared that much better, of late. The left is just perfecting its tactics down there.

[Dog Gone]

Tin sombreros, indeed.

If this election were rigged, I guarantee it would have been rigged in Obrador's favor.

Maybe it was, but he lost anyway.

[BenLurkin]

"Maybe it was [rigged], but he lost anyway."

I sometimes wonder if that is what happened to Algore.

[freedumb2003]

Wait till the DUmmies get a hold of this! LOL!

El Diboldita ;)

Thanks again -- hope you had some carne asada y/o tacos de trompo!

Now I'm hungry!

[1ofmanyfree]

On a side note, has anyone heard if AlGore has visited Mehico recently in an advisory roll as an election fraud expert?

I wouldn't be surprised.

[tet68]

the National Institute of Penal Sciences

Jeez, I get spam from those guys ALL the time!

[StJacques]

"the National Institute of Penal Sciences

Jeez, I get spam from those guys ALL the time!"

Are your whereabouts "unknown" tet68? LOL!

[mhx]

Lots of evil computer geeks here :->

[CedarDave]

I sometimes wonder if that is what happened to Algore.

He inconveniently happened upon global warming.

[martin_fierro]

¡ALERTO DE SOMBRERO DE ALUMINIO!

[Cinnamon]

ay carmaba! el sombrero de aluminum!

[BunnySlippers]

There should be a law against making up stories to incite civic violence. And the Venezuelan observers will swear to it.

[conservative in nyc]

Paging Bev Harris. Bev Harris, please get on the first plane to Mexico City! ObraGore is looking for your "expertise" in cybernetic manipulation.

The Mexican equivalent of DU will buy her crap and contribute to her campaign, until they too figure our Bev Harris is a fraud (and there's no such thing as cybernetic manipulation).

[CedarDave]

We're not talking about 537 votes here, but 243,934.

Here's the actual final numbers, from Es Mas (courtesy of conservative in nyc):

Calderon (PAN) 15,000,284 (35.89%)
Obrador (PRD) 14,756,350 (35.31%)
Dinosaur (PRI) 9,301,441 (22.26%)
Alternative Party 1,128,850 (2.70%)
New Alliance 401,804 (0.96%)
Write-in 297,989 (0.71%)
Null Votes 904,604 (2.16%)
Total Votes: 41,791,322

Calderon Margin: 243,934 (0.58%)

[BunnySlippers]

OBRADOR SUPPORTERS

CALDERON SUPPORTERS