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Mexico's deceptive recount

Submitted July 6, 2006 - 12:56 am by Justin Delacour
Fraud or no fraud, the way that Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has gone about this recount of vote tallies is amazingly irresponsible. With 89 percent of the tallies counted, the IFE announced that it would recount four northern states (Baja California del Norte, Nuevo León, Sonora and Sinaloa) last. The PAN won each of these states.

Throughout the day, López Obrador has been leading the recount, but I haven't seen any reports of where these vote tallies were coming from. Now that Lopez Obrador's lead has narrowed to just 1.28 percent, the IFE tells us (as it goes into recess) that these four northern states are the last to be counted. With these four states to be counted, it's virtually guaranteed that Calderón will end up in the lead. Judging from the PREP results, Calderón stands to pick up around a million recounted votes from these four states.

Again, fraud or no fraud, the IFE will have nobody to blame but itself when López Obrador's supporters are incredulous that Calderón has taken the lead at the end of the recount. It's almost as if the entire recount was set up as a cruel panista joke.

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