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Greg Palast in a Guardian (UK) op-ed piece has this provocative comparison to make,
"Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat
There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America...
Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida... had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them "felons", but our investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black...
Jeb's winning scrub list was the creation of a private firm, ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. Now, it seems, ChoicePoint is back in the voter list business - in Mexico...
There's more that the Mexico vote has in common with Florida besides the heat. The ruling party's hand-picked electoral commission counted a mere 402,000 votes more for their candidate, Felipe Calderón, over challenger Andrés Manuel López Obrador. That's noteworthy in light of the surprise showing of candidate Señor Blank-o (the 827,000 ballots supposedly left "blank").
We've seen Mr Blank-o do well before - in Florida in 2000 when Florida's secretary of state (who was also co-chair of the Bush campaign) announced that 179,000 ballots showed no vote for the president...
The International Republican Institute, an arm of Bush's party apparatus funded by the US government, admits to providing tactical training for PAN...
Power gamble on Mexico's streets
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may have lost the vote counting after the 2 July presidential election in Mexico. But he is still the big winner on the streets of the capital city...
The case for fraud would be made this Monday to the seven-judge Federal Election Tribunal and the Mexican Supreme Court, he added...
But Mexico can look forward to weeks of uncertainty and disruption while this intense political drama plays out.
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