del.icio.usThe Exit polls said he won, but the "official" tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads. And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change the outcome.
So writes BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast, and he isn't referring to Bush vs. Gore in 2002. Today, a million people marched in Mexico city, demanding the same thing we're asking for here in San Diego: count every vote.
Right now in Mexico's capitol, nearly a million ballots sit in tied bundles uncounted. That’s four times the "official" margin of victory of the ruling party over Lopez Obrador. Supposedly, they're "votos nulos" — null votes, unreadable. But, not surprisingly, when a few packets were opened, the majority of these supposedly unreadable votes were Lopez Obrador's.
If you'd like to learn more, watch or listen to Greg Palast's investigative report, broadcast last week on Democracy Now: "Florida con Salsa" (so maybe he is referring to Bush v. Gore, just a little bit... :)
