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The Guanajuato video showed nothing improper

Submitted July 13, 2006 - 10:08 am by Jules Siegel
It was the precinct president transferring presidential ballots that had accidentally been placed in the congressional ballot box, and vice versa. This was approved by the poll-watchers. The tally for the precinct was signed by the representative of López-Obrador's party, the PRD.

The PRD citizen network coordinator, Manuel Camacho Solís, said that his party has to be more careful about what they present to the media. He admitted that the showing the "ballot stuffing" videos was a mistake, but that he did not believe it was done in bad faith.

I'm not sure about that. They had to know that their own representative signed off on the tally. Why didn't they call him and ask what had happened? Why wasn't he presented along with the video?

When confronted with the facts, López Obrador said that many of his poll watchers have been offered bribes and that not all of them were righteous. He also argued that transferring the ballots was an illegal act that could not be validated by a poll-watcher's signature. The precinct president said that's not true. The PRD poll-watcher told the press that nothing improper had occurred.

So this is what López Obrador offers the nation as proof of fraud -- that his party is so corrupt that its own militants sold out the election to the opposition because they were bribed?

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