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To: Road Walker who wrote (293725)	7/12/2006 3:12:22 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572708

Leftist Screens Videos He Says Prove Fraud in Mexico Vote By GINGER THOMPSON Published: July 11, 2006 MEXICO CITY, July 10 — On the morning after his campaign filed a legal challenge to last week’s presidential elections, the leftist candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stepped up his public campaign against the vote, screening two videos that he said proved the election was flawed. One video showed what he described as a voter in President Vicente Fox’s home state of Guanajuato illegally stuffing a ballot box in the race for Congress. The other video, he said, showed that election officials in the state of Querétaro had wrongly given his conservative opponent, Felipe Calderón, 200 more votes than he had actually won at one polling station. It was not possible to verify the authenticity or content of the videos, or whether the content had any bearing on the race for president. Still, the screening of the videos at a news conference added to Mexico’s strong sense of political uncertainty. It also offered a glimpse of the kinds of materials that Mr. López Obrador is likely to present in coming weeks as he tries to drum up support for his legal challenge. Election authorities announced last week that Mr. Calderón, a former energy minister, had defeated Mr. López Obrador by a slim margin of 243,000 votes out of 41 million cast. Those results have not been ratified by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, which has until Aug. 31 to rule on whether it will grant Mr. López Obrador’s request for a recount. Until it does, Mexico remains without a settled heir to the presidency. President Fox’s spokesman, Rubén Aguilar, said Monday that Mr. Fox would not meet with either Mr. Calderón or Mr. López Obrador until the electoral tribunal had certified the winner, which it has yet to do. President Fox, meanwhile, made his first public appearances since the elections and did not speak about the matter. continued................... nytimes.com