Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Federal Elections in Mexico 2006: Two voting stations with more votes for Felipe Calderón than registered electors
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Last week this weblog noted that definitive results of last July 2 presidential election - published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) - show 117 voting stations or casillas (out of 130,788) in which the total number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered electors.
These include two voting stations - one in Nuevo León's District 11 and another in San Luis Potosí's District 4 - where the vote total for PAN presidential candidate Felipe Calderón is larger than the number of enrolled voters. In a further two voting stations - one in Durango's District 1 and another in Oaxaca's District 7 - Roberto Madrazo of the Alliance for México (PRI-PVEM) had more votes than registered voters.
Other than these four cases, there are no further voting stations showing a presidential candidate with more votes than registered electors. Nonetheless, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential nominee of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos (PRD-PT-C), has stated that results in the aforementioned voting stations in Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí are evidence of election fraud.
However, IFE acknowledged in a press release that in some voting stations "the number of tabulated votes in the district count is larger than the number of included ballots." According to IFE, in some cases discrepancies were due to the fact that results for elections to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies were added to the presidential vote, while in other cases discrepancies were caused by tally sheet filling errors.
Link:
López Obrador describes more elections offenses - Mexico News
(The voting station in Nuevo León mentioned on the article has 603 registered voters, instead of 412.)
Last week this weblog noted that definitive results of last July 2 presidential election - published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) - show 117 voting stations or casillas (out of 130,788) in which the total number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered electors.These include two voting stations - one in Nuevo León's District 11 and another in San Luis Potosí's District 4 - where the vote total for PAN presidential candidate Felipe Calderón is larger than the number of enrolled voters. In a further two voting stations - one in Durango's District 1 and another in Oaxaca's District 7 - Roberto Madrazo of the Alliance for México (PRI-PVEM) had more votes than registered voters.
Other than these four cases, there are no further voting stations showing a presidential candidate with more votes than registered electors. Nonetheless, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential nominee of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos (PRD-PT-C), has stated that results in the aforementioned voting stations in Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí are evidence of election fraud.
However, IFE acknowledged in a press release that in some voting stations "the number of tabulated votes in the district count is larger than the number of included ballots." According to IFE, in some cases discrepancies were due to the fact that results for elections to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies were added to the presidential vote, while in other cases discrepancies were caused by tally sheet filling errors.
Link:
López Obrador describes more elections offenses - Mexico News
(The voting station in Nuevo León mentioned on the article has 603 registered voters, instead of 412.)
