(MEXICO) Court Recommends Rejecting Full Recount in Mexican Elections

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From Associated Press via Wall Street Journal:

MEXICO CITY -- A majority of Mexico's top electoral court recommended Saturday rejecting the leftist party's request for a total recount, likely angering millions of supporters of candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador.

In the Federal Electoral Tribunal's first public session on the disputed July 2 presidential race, the judges left open the possibility that the court will order a partial recount. The court's seven magistrates must still vote on the recommendation. The tribunal, known here as the Trife, has until Sept. 6 to declare a president-elect or annul the elections.

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  The link above goes to a stub- while several national newspapers are covering this breaking story none are titled as honestly as the WSJ one. For those wishing a link to the whole story, try this one from Forbes or this one from the Houston Chronicle. Both of these are also based on the Associated Press article.

  This is a very important development! Now the ball, seemingly, is back in the court of Obrador and his supporters. It will not likely sit well with the 2+ MILLION protesters who are in Mexico City's zocalo and other strategic positions inside the city. It is arguable that there is something like a "soft" media blackout on this issue in The United States because, with millions of disenfranchised voters already set up inside Mexico City things could get...dicey.

  If you need to catch up to speed with the least amount of reading, I suggest this handy thread I started. It contains important information, dates, locations and significances. Still, it scratches the surface but should be useful.

  Finally, if you find this information useful, please consider kicking but most-importantly RECOMMENDING this thread. With the sheer number of threads on DU, many users have reduced or given up entirely on searching through the forums directly and instead spend much of their time on the Greatest Page. Recommending this thread will help bring this information to their attention.

PB