News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Juárez vote recount gives PAN candidate victory

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

El Paso Times

JUAREZ -- The Juárez recount of the closest presidential election in Mexico's history ended Thursday afternoon inside a converted carport.

Fifty party representatives and electoral workers had spent 39 hours under the watchful eyes of Mexican soldiers, going through the voting rosters for more than 120,000 votes in District 3, one of the last seven districts holding up the recount in Mexico.

They found only a handful of miscounts and finished with ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon in the lead with 69,263 votes, compared with 24,483 votes for his rival, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

But nationwide, the margin was much smaller -- 0.57 percent, or 236,006 votes -- and Lopez Obrador vowed to take the matter to court.

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