[news] Mexico's Electoral Tribunal Orders Partial Recount to Begin on Wednesday

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By Al Giordano - Part IV in a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin | August 5, 2006

The court’s decision to allow a recount in only half of Mexico’s 300 electoral districts could still result in an historic reversal of official tallies that gave a razor-thin advantage to National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderón (who the Federal Elections Commission, know as IFE, claims won by .58 percent or 240,000 votes), making former Mexico City governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) the comeback kid of this year’s cloudy election process.

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