You won't find any defense of the PRD or any other party here. (Wasn't it you, just a few days ago, asking aloud about what a "straw man" is? And didn't you also take me to task for not supporting any candidate during the election season? C'mon, at least be consistent with your own arguments and try not to have it both ways; consistency with one's previous statements and coherence are the first duties of honest commentary).  

At stake are not partisan concerns, but, rather, that the vote tallies have been rigged by IFE and each day provides more hard evidence.

The PRD is not the electoral authority. IFE is. Its delinquents belong in prison. Interestingly, the IFE board, this week, held an emergency special meeting with the only agenda item being the granting of two-week bonuses to its officials. A little incentive to keep quiet. That is called hush money. Once more, the criminals are rewarded as the people are robbed.

My point about the not-so-indelible ink was not that anybody voted using the same credential more than once; rather, that it made it possible for a political operative to vote various times using different IDs (of dead people, of Mexicans that immigrated to the US) as in the cases of 311,000 Guanajuatense "voters" on the IFE lists that no longer live in Guanajuato but who mysteriously appeared, like phantoms, on Election Day.

That is what the indelible ink is supposed to prevent: one person using bought, stolen, rented or invented voter IDs to vote more than once under different names in different polling places. It was put there for a reason: precisely because of the long history and culture of corruption in which that tactic was used in past years, and, now, again in 2006. That's the only possible way that 311,000 more people could have voted than there are adults in the state of Guanajuato. How convenient for the delinquents that the ink turned out to be "delible" - just like the results.