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I'm going to go with a week from tomorrow, Saturday the 19th. The tribunal chose a Saturday to give their response to AMLO's appeal to keep the reaction at a minimum, they will probably want to spend some time during the week looking into his, ridiculous in my opinion, charge of "cybernetic manipulation" of the reporting of the votes by the IFE, they'll want to deal with other challenges from PAN -- and I expect them to reject those as "not pertaining to the outcome of the election" -- which will be a forewarning of their eventual ruling, and they will want to pronounce the actual vote count as revised by the recount. Then, when they have given everyone the clear sign that they have bent over backwards to accommodate AMLO in his appeal, they will declare Calderon the winner. And by the way, watch what happens when they deal with the "cybernetic manipulation" charge. AMLO and company have opened the door here for the tribunal to begin an examination of the Actas (the official reports of the votes in the casillas), which is the last thing AMLO and his supporters want. "Cybernetic manipulation" of the reporting of votes only deals with the Actas. I expect the tribunal to say, "yes, let's get all those reports in here and compare them with the official counting done by the IFE." Once they start that process, any consideration of counting the ballots by hand will be over and that will send Lopez Obrador and the PRD into a rabid rage.

This is going to be a rough week for AMLO. I'm going to enjoy it.

Hi Saint. Regarding:

>>>"yes, let's get all those reports in here and compare them with the official counting done by the IFE." Once they start that process, any consideration of counting the ballots by hand will be over and that will send Lopez Obrador and the PRD into a rabid rage.<<<

I'm not sure I understand your reasoning there. Meanwhile, the precautious side of me is concerned that some will worry that they haven't "bent over backwards" UNLESS there's a vote-by-vote recount nationwide (and Mexico lacks an electoral college system, for those here who have wondered why this is taking longer than Floriduh did). I sure would like for there to be some closure to this though, although I think we'll all miss your fine updates :-)