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IFE--myth vs reality

Submitted July 4, 2006 - 12:26 pm by Gary Hughes
This is one of the more informative sources on the web, and I want to commend Al for the PREF results piece...questions about the null votes are critical, and there do seem to be many inconsistencies between prep numbers and ACTAS.

Yeah, everyone wants to Believe in IFE, like a kind of pie in the sky of democracy.  From being in Mexico through the majority of the campaign it would be hard for me to say that the IFE has acted with total impartiality through the campaign.  Weakkneed and without any capacity for "fiscalización," the IFE has been far from exemplary, though everyone wishes that it was otherwise, to the point that the myth is starting to overwhelm reality.

I think in the long run the actual vote counting by IFE will probably be pretty accurate.  But whos votes get counted (i.e. nullified votes) and Who Actually Got to Cast a Vote are very important issues that have to be addressed to give the election any legitimacy.

The Casillas Especiales have proven to be a disaster and if this is not a grave irregularity, than eveyone is just swimming in their IFE pipe dream.

As an aside, Jules wrote:

"Until then, it's just a close election with the very understandable claims of fraud and irregularities by the loser."

What I don't understand is that if the election is too close to call why are you telling us already that there is a loser? And if the claims of irregularities are understandable why don't you stand up and demand that the voting be reviewed completely?

I think los PANistas wanted AMLO to concede last night because there is a chance that he actually has more votes, once all the votes get counted...and in this instance IFE has done a credible job of waiting to count the votes before making any pronouncements.

So count the votes, and make sure they count them well...

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