Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's lawyers plan to present what they say is evidence of fraud to the nation's highest electoral court Sunday, a day after the candidate urged his supporters not to lose hope at a massive gathering in Mexico City's historic center.
The legal appeals won't seek to annul the July 2 election. Instead, Lopez Obrador wants to force authorities to conduct a vote-by-vote manual recount, claiming computer manipulation of the result.
Guanajuato as Florida
The north-central Mexican state of Guanajuato – home turf of President Vicente Fox and an importantísimo electoral base for his and Calderón’s PAN party – is where official results from the state’s 6,122 precincts (less than five percent of the national vote) gave Calderón a margin of more than 700,000 votes. That is to say, even according the highly suspicious official results, López Obrador won the rest of the country by almost half a million votes. This was a state where electoral fraud was carried out – and continues to be covered up – on a systematic basis.
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