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All elections are biased against the poor

Submitted July 4, 2006 - 12:35 pm by Jules Siegel
Traveling business people versus internal economic refugees, hmm, what do you think the ratio is?

Nobody knows, but you left out a really important group, people on vacation.  

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.

The argument that extending voting to people outside the country would result in more votes for the PAN was made before the new policies went into effect. Many commentators here dismissed the whole project as just another trick by Fox to increase his party's vote. As far as I know, the PRD did not raise any objections to the rules that made absentee voting from outside the country so difficult. Maybe Al can enlighten us on that.

Everyone seems to be ignoring the real issue of why López Obrador somehow lost the overwhelming lead he had in all polls last year. It's more convenient to talk about election fraud. Is it possible that once people outside his base got to know what he stood for, they didn't like him?

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