Mexico, Ohio, and Florida

[UPDATE AND BUMP]

(from the nyt...)

The best thing the United States can do now is to support the push for a recount and to refrain from calling on Mr. López Obrador to concede. Then, no matter who finally wins the election, the White House should renegotiate Nafta, allowing Mexico to set its own policy in support of its rural economy. If the Bush administration does otherwise, it might help begin yet another season of Mexican upheaval — just as the Aztecs might have predicted.

i agree, 100%...

sound familiar...?

Juan Huerta, 55, who works at a newsstand near a luxury department store, said he thought that the election was riddled with fraud. Mr. Huerta said he tried to cast a ballot for Mr. López Obrador, but was told that rain had soaked all the ballots. "This is a fraud against the people," he said.

i don't give a flying fig how transparent the election was, make it really clean and order a recount...

Advisers to Mr. López Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, said he would challenge the results in one-third of the 130,000 polling places, focusing on sites with many null votes or where his party did not have representatives to oversee the count.

The advisers acknowledged that the errors found in each ballot box opened in the final count were small, but argued that together they could add up to enough votes to change the result.

"If they recount the votes and Calderón wins by one vote, then it ends," said Mayor-Elect Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City, a close adviser to Mr. López Obrador. "If they don't count the votes, there will always be a doubt."

If the court does not order a recount, Mr. López Obrador left little doubt at a news conference on Thursday that he was considering mass marches as a next step. "It's our right," he said.

for god's sake, don't make the same mistake the u.s. did in 2000... do it right... order a recount...

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