Mexican Election Fraud

Oh, there's fraud alright, it is being attempted by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his supporters. Mark in Mexico has a handy little primer into the attempted fraud, Mexican election law and stupid political tricks that AMLO supporters are trying to pull off. They are fully aware that Mexican election law does not allow for what they are demanding, but they are trying to force a court to make in illegal ruling to support an illegal protest. Destroy Mexico, it's economy and it's laws so that AMLO can be president.

Here is an example that may help you. Let's take a civil court case in a USA court. The jury renders its verdict. Neither side in the case likes the verdict. So both the plantiffs and the defendants in the case agree that they want a new trial. They tell the judge, "We've agreed that we want a new trial because we didn't like the results of the last one." What would the judge say? "Get lost, and quickly," is what he would say.

Let's say that the election magistrates had arbitrarily ruled for a 100% recount. All it would take would be for any Mexican citizen, or, more likely the PRI, to challenge that ruling and the election magistrates would be forced under the law to vacate their own decision. No magistrate or group of magistrates, in Mexico or the USA or anywhere else for that matter, are going to put themselves in such a position.

Mexican election law is also designed to avoid the ballot containers – the paquetes – from ever being assembled in one place at the same time. They are spread out all over the country. This is to preclude the possibility of the type of massive fraud that AMLO is claiming occurred.

Here is some of the silliness being perpetrated by AMLO's recount watchers. When the very first paquete was opened and recounted yesterday and it was found that Calderon had gained a vote, a PRD spokesman immediately went before the press to claim that this one vote error demonstrated that a 100% recount was necessary.

In a district up north somewhere yesterday, all the players arrived at the warehouse where the paquetes were stored. The PRD representative immediately began crying foul because the warehouse had two doors, both sealed, but the seal on one door had been signed by the the District Committee president and vice president, while the seal on the other door had been signed by those two as well as each of the party representatives who were present when the seals were placed. "Fraud," cried the PRD rep.

The presiding magistrate listened to this folly, then said that, since neither seal had been broken and neither door had been opened, the objection was denied. You don't overturn an election because of alleged missing signatures that may or may not have been required on a seal that obviously hasn't been broken.

These kinds of stupid, baseless charges are all that fuels the leftist loser AMLO. That and money from somewhere. I'd still like to know who is paying for all those protesters. Who, by the way, today blocked the tax office.