Saturday, August 5, 2006

Mexican court rejects recount request

Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal denied presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s demand for a vote-by-vote recount. Instead, the court ordered a partial recount of approximately 9% of the voting stations registered in last month’s presidential election. Supporters for Lopez Obrador (image) were upset at the court’s decision, as protestors in Mexico City yelled claimed the Tribunal’s verdict was “a total fraud.”

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