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New York Times calls for complete recount

Submitted July 8, 2006 - 7:49 am by Justin Delacour
Wow, this comes as a bit of a surprise.

From the New York Times July 7 editorial, entitled "A Recount in Mexico":

"...there are enough problems to warrant a complete recount. Some polling stations that have recounted their ballots have found that the votes were misrecorded on tally sheets. The earlier discrepancies appeared to largely favor Mr. Calderon, in at least one case mistakenly awarding him hundreds of extra votes. The I.F.E. [Federal Electoral Institute] cannot legally order a recount of the entire presidential election. But the Federal Election Tribunal, an independent panel created to handle these kinds of disputes, could. In previous races, it has even gone so far as to call new elections in the states of Tabasco and Colima..."

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