Or,................
............maybe he just lost, and the "local chapter of Anonymous" are a bit "leftist" and wanted him to win.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the right ones.
Mexico's defeated leftist presidential candidate has claimed his country's election was "fraudulent", a claim supported by the local chapter of Anonymous. Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), declared victory late on Sunday after official results showed he landed 38 per cent of the vote. Andres …
".....and the "local chapter of Anonymous" are a bit "leftist"...." Don't be silly, what a stupid thing to say! Honestly, how could anyone think the Anons were only "a bit" leftist? Bit like calling that tw@ Chris Nineham of the Stop The War stupidness "just slightly influenced by Trotsky".
"...Mexico's defeated leftist presidential candidate has claimed his country's election was "fraudulent", a claim supported by the local chapter of Anonymous...."
It's a good job that you can rely upon Internet vigilantes, who are prepared to hack election officials IT systems, to let you know if an election is safe or not...
So if you don't agree with the messenger the news can be ignored?
Very long URL I know but these are Official Russian voting figures
http://www.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/region/izbirkom?action=show&root=1&tvd=100100028713304&vrn=100100028713299®ion=0&global=1&sub_region=0&prver=0&pronetvd=null&vibid=100100028713304&type=233
Look at the first two rows of the last column.
Registered voters 320455
Votes cast 1619073
~64% of these votes went to guess who?
The real question is probably not whether there was fraud--it was an election, after all--but whether it changed the outcome of the election (see Nixon v. Kennedy, Hayes v. Tilden, and many others). Did the votes I stole downstate balance the votes you stole upstate?
Trusting souls believing in the efficiency and unambiguity of the election process are urged to check the New York press for primary contest between the incumbent Charles Rangel and the challenger Adriano Espaillat in the 13th congressional district of New York.
Over here in Mexico right now. Most of the educated Mexicans I have been speaking with seem to think that Peña Nieto's party is easily the most corrupt, and there was talk of vote buying (in the very poor areas) well before the result.
Doesn't sound like anyone with a clue actually wanted him in but there are a lot of areas of Mexico that are still very poor (one town I was in only got electricity in 2004), so votes could easily be bought, and bribes are common practice here.
@Piloti
Actually talking with real Mexicans would give you a bit more insight into the reality of it all. The few Mexican I know have been posting against the corruption for the last few months on Facebook now.
Paying the impoverished for their vote cards is tawdry; what they need is a nice respectable billionaire class like the Koch Brothers to put their weight behind the election. Then it's nothing more than "free speech" in service of a fair political choice. It works for U$, it should work for Mexico.
Paying the impoverished for their vote cards is tawdry;
Since you want to drag American politics into this, I'll point out that this is EXACTLY what the Democrats have been doing for ~50 years now, and with taxpayer dollars to boot!!!
You don't REALLY think they enacted all those handout programs because they actually give two shits about the poor, do you?