Mexico Presidential Election Ballots Found in Dump

07/06/2006 @ 10:15 am

Filed by RAW STORY

As the apparent victor in Mexico's presidential election switched back and forth Thursday morning, ballots were found in two garbage dumps, RAW STORY has learned. The news was accompanied by various wire reports showing that left wing candidate Andrйs Manuel Lуpez Obrador had rejected findings that his opponent Felipe Calderуn was the winner.

Although official tallies indicated a victory for Calderуn of 0.3%, the Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood in Mexico City, according to Reuters. The ballots came from three precincts in the city of Nezahuacoyotl, a Lуpez Obrador stronghold according to the website Narco News.