Mexico: It's official - almost (Wizbang Politics)

Mexico's highest election court has rejected allegations of rampant voter fraud and named reform candidate Felipe Calderon President-elect. Leftist loser Lopez-Obrador is playing the Al Gore card and refusing to recognize the results. Will Meissert of the Associated Press files this report:

Felipe Calderon became president-elect of Mexico on Tuesday, two months after disputed elections, when the nation's top electoral court voted unanimously to reject allegations of fraud and certify his narrow victory.

His leftist rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, had said he would not recognize the ruling. His supporters wept as the decision was announced and the courthouse shook as protesters set off fireworks outside.

"Felipe Calderon didn't win. Fraud won," opposition supporter Francisca Ojeda said, screaming to be heard over protesters throwing trash at the court and screaming "Fraud! Fraud!"

The court found no evidence of systematic fraud, although it threw out some polling place results for mathematical errors, irregularities, and other problems that trimmed Calderon's 240,000-vote advantage to 233,831 votes out of 41.6 million cast.

Read the whole story at the link above.

Besides the Sore Loserman, Calderon faces a daunting challenge in reforming Mexico's economy, whose chronic and systemic inefficiency is keeping it in a state of perpetual recession and fueling a continuing exodus of workers to the United States, legally and illegally. Vincente Fox was elected to reform, but failed to do anything beyond cosmetics.

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Comments (3)

I've had less and less resp... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by steve | September 5, 2006 6:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

steve:

I've had less and less respect for Al Gore over the years but at least he recognized the decision of the highest court in the land after he whined to them.

Posted on September 5, 2006 18:27

If you had ever dealt with ... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by ReSours | September 5, 2006 11:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

ReSours:

If you had ever dealt with as big a hypocrite and power-hungry
egomaniac as Lopez O., you would know there's a far cry between this ambitious dork and good ole Al Gore.

Posted on September 5, 2006 23:18

I've never had the displeas... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by Jim Addison | September 6, 2006 2:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Jim Addison:

I've never had the displeasure of dealing with Lopez Obrador, but Al Gore takes a back seat to no man on being a hypocritical, power-hungry, egomaniacal, pompous, arrogant windbag.

USA! USA!

;-)

Posted on September 6, 2006 02:26