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Few weeks ago, the conservative PAN candidate Felipe
Calderon was reported to be the winner of Mexico's presidential
elections by 243 thousand votes, a slim victory of just 0.58 percent in
this country of over 100 million. Leftist PRD candidate
Andrés
Manual Lopez Obrador has refused to accept the results, labelling the
election a fraud.
Victor Romero is a
Doctor of
physics who
specialises
in statistics and randomness at the National University of Mexico. He
studied the electoral commission computer results closely and he
believes there is strong evidence of interference. Dr
Romero explained to me a very unusual statistical pattern he noticed
with the PRD vote as the tallies came into towards the end. "The PRD
was winning and then suddenly at about 70% they start losing and never
even gained .01 of a percentage," he explained. It seems
incredible
that as the last 30% of results came in, the PRD share of votes never
increased. "It could be like this and then like that," Dr Romero
explains, moving his hands up and down, "More of one party and less
than another. But not in order. The order here is completely
unexplainable."
The text is a courtesy of Sophie McNeills. More than just an
investigative journalist, Sophie is a remarkable young woman who's been
a political activist and social
campaigner since the age of nine. When she was 15 she went, alone, to
Timor and produced a self-funded documentary on the genocide.