Top electoral officials and judges are feeding doubts about the outcome of Mexico's presidential vote by declining to release details about a recount of 4 million ballots and by moving quickly to destroy all 41 million ballots, legal experts said Friday.
The seven judges of the Federal Electoral Tribunal declared conservative candidate Felipe Calderon president-elect on Tuesday.
But the tribunal's 300-page ruling on the vote left some experts shaking their heads.John M. Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said the
judges had made no effort to investigate possible financing improprieties and other charges made by leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The ruling also failed to cite any legal precedents in its refusal to have the election annulled, Ackerman said.The court opened ballot boxes and recounted 4 million votes, but only to determine whether there was evidence of outright fraud — and declared that they had found none.
The recount tallies were not released. "The tribunal is explicitly preventing us from seeing what actually happened in the partial recount," Ackerman said. "The result of all this is that we don't have certainty."more
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