Mexico's Stolen Election:
The extent and depth of efforts to defeat leftist
Presidential candidate López Obrador continues to be
uncovered. As with the United States in 2000 and 2004;
wealthy, corporate interests will never give up power
through the Democratic process; giving new meaning to
the old saying "its not who votes that is important"
but "he/she who counts the votes."
Our dilemma as politically active progressives is
how we continue to operate in a system of electoral
processes that are manipulated and owned by corrupt,
privately owned corporations and individuals who now
hold control of the United States government.
As in the US, the introduction of computer voting
machines and the centralization of voter databases,
has made the 2006 stolen Mexican Presidential election
a cakewalk for that country's ruling elite.
Incredibly, US taxpayer funds, through the National
Endowment for Democracy, has been used illegally (in
both countries - it is a crime to interfere in
political campaigns) to finance training sessions for
PAN operatives on how to manipulate voter rolls,
tabulations and other data. Andrew Reding of the
Council on Hemispheric Affairs has reported that the
ruling party operatives had special access codes
denied the opposition.
By the Federal Election Institute (IFE)'s own
numbers, the difference between the two candidates
nationwide hovers slightly below or above one percent,
a difference of less than 377,000 votes.
Now let's look at the actual vote stealing, then the
pre-election actions that lead to the
disenfranchisement of millions of voters.........
* There are 827,000 nullified votes in Sunday's
election? Nullified by whom? and for what reason?
* Incredibly, those above 750 voters at each of 822
special polling places were simply not allowed to vote
last Sunday.* There are tens of thousands of temporary
construction workers from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Campeche,
Veracruz and elsewhere in Quintana Roo, building the
Riviera Maya. This story is repeated all over the
country. For them, the IFE promised "special polling
places" where with an IFE credential from any town,
they could supposedly vote from the road, but only for
president (not for local officials). But IFE limited
the number of ballots for each of these polling places
to only 750. Most of the special polling places ran
out by noon, and everyone else was turned away. Which
economic class of voter did that deprive of its right
to vote? Along the border, busloads of migrant workers
did return home hoping to vote, but then they were
turned back. At midday angry voters petitioned IFE to
send more ballots. IFE refused. There were 822 such
special polling places. Hundreds of thousands of
eligible voters were denied their right to vote.
Another strike against IFE's supposed "good faith".
This maneuver helped Calderon. Again, it is a matter
of class prejudice and discrimination.
* Shades of Kathleen Harris and "purging" black
voters; a week before the Elections, IFE "shaved"
900,000 voters from its list of 70 million. In
general, this was supposedly to eliminate
duplications. But there was no transparency. No public
accounting was given as to who was removed nor why in
the specific. Nor was the process outlined, including
what software was used which is vital considering days
before the elections, CNN journalist Carmen Aristegui,
using the username "Hildebrando117," was able to
access a secret section of the PAN party internet
system. There, she found special access by PAN to not
only that list, but cross referencing it with other
"confidential" government lists of who receives public
assistance, and what kind, from the federal
government. Totally illegal. The username was
interesting, too. Hildebrando is the name of the
computer software company owned by Calderon's brother
in law, Diego Hildebrando Zavala, whose company is
partners with - lo and behold - companies that provide
software for IFE's PREP system among other IFE
computer networks.
* Mexico's Congress passed a law allowing 4.1 million
eligible Mexican voters living in the United States to
vote. The IFE then put the following obstacles in
their way: They had to sign up six months prior to the
vote. They had to show their home town electoral ID
card. The Fox administration refused to allow these
voters to receive a new electoral ID card by mail,
through the Embassies and Consulates, by proxy or by
any other means except for re-crossing the border and
going back to their home towns to get it. Adding
injury to insult, the IFE forced each voter to spend
nine U.S. dollars to send the ballot by express mail
(each ballot had to be sent separately): a poll tax,
is what we used to call this during the Civil Rights
movement. This ensured that poor Mexicans on the other
side could not afford to vote, and that only those
willing to spend nine bucks could do so. Hmmm. Wonder
whose campaign that tax was aimed to benefit. Of the
4.1 million eligible Mexicans on the Other Side, only
a little over 28,000 were able to get their ballots
in.
* Finally, good old fashion fraud and
corruption.....There is a vast number of yet to be
determined number of misstated returns in the PREP
system. Lopez Obrador's alleges that "3 million"
votes were disappeared from IFE's PREP system. He is a
political figure that doesn't have a history of making
factual claims he can't prove.
I believe we should e-mail our elected officials.
First, to protest our governments involvement and
manipulation of another country's democratic process
and, secondly, ask that legislation be introduced in
Congress to withhold US recognition of the Calderon
government until there is a fair, impartial,
international certification of the vote count in
Mexico.
Thanks...... rocky
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