Thursday, July 27, 2006
Federal Elections in Mexico 2006: AMLO outpolled Felipe Calderón in voting stations with alleged math errors
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential candidate of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos, published last week on his Web site a detailed listing of 72,197 voting stations whose tally sheets of last July 2 presidential election supposedly contain math errors - errors which according to López Obrador are evidence of election fraud.
However, if vote totals for these voting stations are added up, López Obrador scores better results in these than in the remaining stations. On the basis of election statistics published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), the 72,197 tally sheets with alleged errors give AMLO a total of 8,813,800 votes against 8,812,310 for Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN), who obtains a majority of 245,424 votes (1.4%) in the remaining 58,591 voting stations.
It must be noted as well that IFE figures for voting stations with alleged errors are marginally better for López Obrador than those furnished on his own Web site, which have Calderón ahead with 8,811,301 votes, followed by López Obrador with 8,807,442 votes.
Both IFE's and Lopez Obrador's Web sites have exactly the same number of registered voters for each one of the 72,197 voting stations in question, but in 3,956 cases there are differences in the number of votes for one or more of the presidential candidates, or in the invalid ballot totals.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential candidate of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos, published last week on his Web site a detailed listing of 72,197 voting stations whose tally sheets of last July 2 presidential election supposedly contain math errors - errors which according to López Obrador are evidence of election fraud.However, if vote totals for these voting stations are added up, López Obrador scores better results in these than in the remaining stations. On the basis of election statistics published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), the 72,197 tally sheets with alleged errors give AMLO a total of 8,813,800 votes against 8,812,310 for Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN), who obtains a majority of 245,424 votes (1.4%) in the remaining 58,591 voting stations.
It must be noted as well that IFE figures for voting stations with alleged errors are marginally better for López Obrador than those furnished on his own Web site, which have Calderón ahead with 8,811,301 votes, followed by López Obrador with 8,807,442 votes.
Both IFE's and Lopez Obrador's Web sites have exactly the same number of registered voters for each one of the 72,197 voting stations in question, but in 3,956 cases there are differences in the number of votes for one or more of the presidential candidates, or in the invalid ballot totals.
