Power in Mexico II

"Algunos de los ejemplos citados: la casilla básica 2876 y sus tres contiguas, tienen 264 votos para Calderón cada una. La básica 893 y sus 3 contiguas, tienen 179 cada una. Y la básica 3177 y su contigua, 274 cada una."

Antonio Gershenson writes the above in today's La Jornada:

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/07/09/025a2pol.php

He is a physicist and a journalist. He believes that he uncovered a program used by the electoral comission in Mexico to fix the numbers, thus helping the government's party in the presidential election last Sunday.

The irregularity consists in having several polling sites with identical number of votes for the ruling party. These sites are related, but there is no reasonable explanation of why each has to have exactly the same number of votes for one candidate. One case is an acceptable accident, but the three reported by Mr. Gershenson, seem more like fraud than accident.

The last word has not been said. Yesterday there were hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico City's main plaza. The challenger asked them to bring ten friends and relatives next Sunday. We may have over a million angry voters in the Aztec capital. Every hundred years or so there seems to be restlessness in the land of the first people of this continent. Mexico did not start in 2000 when the current president took over, and will not end in this year of 2006.