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Electoral biases against the poor

Most elections in most countries appear to be biased against the poor, possibly in the United States more than Mexico.  And I'm willing to believe that Mexico's new-and-improved election commission will be able to run fairer and more honest elections than the United States.

But, Jules Siegal, you seem unwilling to acknowledge specific evidence that it is and has been made harder for poorer people to vote -- people who, as you know and I can tell you even from Massachusetts, are more likely to be PRD supporters than PAN supporters.

Let's be serious about the numbers.  Traveling business people versus internal economic refugees, hmm, what do you think the ratio is?  As for PAN expecting to pick up votes from emigrants to the U.S., they probably did-- once they made the process difficult and expensive enough to cut participation to a relative handful.  I think that tiny number speaks for itself.

Regarding the stations for economic migrants, simply the possibility of anyone voting while away from their home state (or town) is a great improvement over the weak democracy I experience in the US-- but the fact remains that there is a systematic bias against the poor, that there is plenty of evidence that more Mexicans want AMLO than Caldero, and so the question is if the vote reflects that and if not, was there fraud even in addition to these systemic biases?  As in the U.S. in 2000, the moral responsibility should rest with the side benefiting from these anti-democratic biases-- but there will be plenty of comfortable pundits to argue for orderly, law-abiding acceptance of rule by the richest.

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