I can give a brief overview of results from reports of the progress of the recount in several different areas of Mexico from articles in Spanish at the web sites of the Mexico City newspapers
El Universal and
La Crónica de Hoy
Most of the recount is showing only very minor changes in vote totals. The big news for Calderon and the PAN is that the recount in Mexico City's Electoral District 15, around which Lopez Obrador presented his
Recurso Madre (the "Mother of All Appeals") to the Electoral Tribunal as showing the most damaging evidence of fraud,
has now been completed. The end result was a net gain of 11 votes for Lopez Obrador and 11 votes for Felipe Calderon.
It was a tie! Recounts are also proceeding elsewhere, it was reported that AMLO picked up 11 votes in Nuevo Leon (Monterey area), there was some
tension in Guanajuato (approx. 100 miles NNW of Mexico City) between PRD and PAN observers of the recount that almost led to blows, but the difficulties were worked out evidently and it is reported that the recount is proceeding in an "orderly" fashion, no report of any major alterations. Similar reports are coming in from most everywhere else, which has led the PRD to charge "conspiracy" for the fact that
many of the electoral packets were already opened. In many instances it is known that this opening was done legally however, since Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute had to retrieve basic documentation as required by the Electoral Tribunal. But the Federal Electoral Institute has said that it may be that some of the packets were damaged in the process of handling them.
Thus far, the only instance where there appears to be any kind of gain for Lopez Obrador, and it is still very small, in in the recount in
Yucatan, where a local PRD spokesman says they are picking up an average of 5 votes per packet, largely from "null votes" that are being reclassified, and he predicts they will gain about 1,200 total when the process is completed. But that is not an official report, just the statement of a PRD official.
In addition to all of this the demonstrators in Mexico City continue to keep the central business district shut down to traffic, they are staging demonstrations with only a few hundred demonstrators showing up at various sites, all of which is being treated as a nuisance by the authorities. The one thing federal officials have done of note is to
reinforce security at the Mexico City airport in anticipation of the possible arrival of demonstrators at that site.