AP: Mexico's left alleges fraud in Tabasco governor's race

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Mexico's left alleges fraud in Tabasco governor's race

The Associated Press
http://tinyurl.com/fzba9

Published: October 10, 2006

MEXICO CITY Leaders of Mexico's main leftist opposition party showed videos Tuesday of what they say is proof of fraud in the oil-rich Gulf coast state of Tabasco's upcoming gubernatorial election.

Horacio Duarte, a member of the Democratic Revolution Party's judicial team, accused the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, its main rival in Sunday's vote, of trading bicycles and house paint for the voting credentials of Democratic Revolution party members in an effort to suppress leftist voter turnout.

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The videos, shown to journalists at a news conference in Mexico City, were allegedly taken Oct. 4 and Oct. 6 in two warehouses frequently populated by PRI party operatives — one in Tabasco's capital, Villahermosa, and the other in the town of Comalcalco. The tapes showed crowds of people swarming a building and taking bikes and boxes of paint out by the dozens.

Where people get so tired of disputed elections that they just want them to end, fraudulent result or not. Or, a permanently inconclusive result.

:sarcasm:
Think about China,for example, or Saudi Arabia or Ohio. They don't get elections at all.
At least the rest of us get a show.

Seriously, it's a long road. People in Ireland lived out their entire lives and generation after
generation of Irish families were born, lived their lives and passed on without anything to call
a nation and political freedom other than their refusal to consent to illegal British tyranny.

We can still change here, if we start paying attention and don't give up.

:grr:

Media! Thouseand of protesters marched from Oaxaca to mexico city gather supporters along the way. There is rage down there, but to listen to our MSM, everythings just hunky dory.

the protests and the actions of Mexican democracy advocates as an aside. They're busy having lunch,
going to meetings, and getting their hair done. Don't be so pushy;)

In Oaxaca,there was just some sort of settlement. It must have been good for the good guys since they have not given up, no even a little.

The one coverage of protests I've heard came when Obrador supporters protested in Wal Marts. That was great and got some play here but you're right, the coverage here is pathetic, to say the most.

Is having an educated population. They know that would be the coup de grace of the rethuglican party.