"Felipe Calderon has been named president of Mexico, by a court, much as George Bush was named
President of the United States, by a court.
"But did he win the election? We do not know. The court's decision did not establish this, any
more than the Bush v Gore case established that Bush won his first election - which, as we now
know, he did not".
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0907-27.htmAn excellent article by James K Galbraith, published in the Guardian, which makes things very clear
even to someone mathematically challenged, as I am. Even a poor maths scholar like myself can
grasp the significance of phrases like "this type of error occurred in more than 50,000 ballot
boxes, that's more than 46%, with a grand sum of 1.5m missing or excessive votes", or this one:
"In 107,425 cases one can compare the number of ballots deposited and the number of voters signing
in. Discrepancies between these two numbers affect 41% of the boxes, about 2.35m ballots".
Where the official result proclaimed victory by less than one quarter of a million votes,
discrepancies amounting to over 2m ballots are very significant indeed. Whether they were innocent
errors or the result of fraud, that certainly accounts for a large number of very dissatisfied
voters. No wonder they've taken to the streets - more power to them.
Galbraith also mentions that "the computer system is not robust and it may be interfered with".
Wouldn't be Diebold, by any chance, would it?
Election fixing is becoming a very bad habit, but if it happens again in November in the Mid-terms,
I hope we may see Congressmen taking to the streets like Lopez Obrador with their supporters,
because God forbid the 2008 election goes the way of the previous two.
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