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1.5 Million Protest Vote Fraud in Mexico Capital
(John Parker, Workers World, July 19, 2006)
Sunday, July 16, was not a day of rest in Mexico City. On the contrary, it was a day of mass action reflecting the determination of the Mexican people to demand a basic democratic right: to have their votes for a president counted honestly. . . . Some 1.5 million people marched and rallied in the large Zocalo square in the city's downtown in support of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and protested what they call fraudulent presidential elections held on July 2. . . . The mobilization was so large that more than 10 video screens were placed along the wide Avenida Reforma, one of the most important of Mexico City, so that those unable to reach the Zocalo could see the event and hear Obrador, who announced that he would put together a citizens' committee to define the actions to be organized. One measure proposed by the politician was to reinforce the citizens' camps outside the country’s 300 electoral districts, where the ballots are being safeguarded. . . . It was a statistical miracle. Earlier, when over 70 percent of the vote had been counted, Lopez Obrador had led with 36.86 percent against Calderón’s 34.37 percent. . . . However, miraculously for Calderon, the 70 percent already counted somehow did not represent an established statistical trend. Another trend then began. What makes this new trend even odder is the fact that each percentage increase of votes for Calderon mirrored a percentage decrease in votes for Lopez Obrador, making this a unique and impossible statistical feat. . . . In addition to the electoral abnormalities, many Lopez Obrador supporters also point to the amount of foreign corporate aid, particularly from the U.S., that Calderon received—which is a violation of Mexican law regarding election financing. Some of that aid came through support by multi-national corporations established with the pro-business, pro-rich media. . . . "About 80 percent of the media was for Calderon," said the PRD spokesperson.

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