Fraud in Peru? Conservative-populist Keiko Fujimori was ahead in vote until a sudden late-night direction switch

In another piece of sour news out of South America, Peru's populist-conservative candidate, Keiko Fujimori, has seen her election lead suddenly vanish from the vote count that came of Sunday's election.

According to Reuters:

Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo widened his lead against right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential vote on Monday, but she said she will not concede yet and alleged “irregularities,” although without showing much proof.
The official count from Sunday's election showed outsider candidate Castillo with 50.3% and Fujimori on 49.7%, with around 95% of the vote counted. The leftist candidate had trailed overnight, but started to take the lion's share of ballots as the count progressed, on the back of a late surge of rural votes.
"There's a clear intention to boycott the will of the people," Fujimori said at a press conference, in which she showed social media videos to back her claims, and accused supporters of Castillo of stealing votes. She also asked her base to bring forth new allegations, if they exist, on social media.
Castillo's party, Free Peru, responded on Twitter that it "rejected" the allegations.

Castillo, who's a hard-left Marxist who wants to nationalize Peru's copper and other industries, and all his Marxist-Leninist minions, wouldn't dream of such a thing, you see.

Yet when he was ahead, he said that Keiko was cheating, and leftists would have to "defend the vote" according to the Reuters report.

Which sounds a bit like projection, now that there's been a late-hour directional switch. Reuters has a chart of that here.

Now, it's possible there was no cheating at all perhaps. Not likely, but possible, given that the city dwellers voted for the leftist candidate and the outland Peruvians cast their votes for Keiko. The directional switch comes from rural voters, according to Reuters,

They've been rigging elections for decades, now they are just openly brazen with it.

What is funny, is that we have all these stereotypes about how people vote. We don't really know or can't know. These elections to the south of us have been meddled in for as long as we can remember.

One thing BLM and Trump showed us--no one group is monolithic. There are sharp divisions and cracks within all these "blocs". Of only we could have real elections and real leadership we could exploit that.

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