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Mexico's vote result challenged
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 10, 2006
MEXICO CITY - Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to court Sunday evening to file purported evidence of fraud that he hoped would overturn his conservative rival's razor-thin preliminary victory. The legal appeal would seek not to annul the July 2 election, but to force authorities to conduct a manual recount of all 41-million ballots. The tribunal was guarded by three soldiers. Election officials said Thursday that Felipe Calderon beat Lopez Obrador by less than 244,000 votes in the election, a margin of 0.6 percent. But Lopez Obrador contends some of his votes weren't counted or were voided without reason. Charges thrown out: A federal judge threw out genocide charges Saturday against former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, ruling that a 30-year statute of limitations had run out, his lawyer said. Echeverria, 84, had been under house arrest for more than a week on charges that he organized a student massacre as interior secretary in 1968. He went on to become president from 1970-1976.
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