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SENSITIVERTMENT FOR WHA/MEX; EMBASSY MEXICO FOR POL. 12958:
N/AS: PGOV, PHUM, MXBJECT: SONORA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RECOUNT
CONTROVERSIAL; PRD INCTS OF CIVIL RESISTANCE. (U) Summary. The
partial presidential vote recount in Sonora
fficial results are not yet known, but the contendingtheir views
on the findings. Felipe
alderon's PAN supporters say that only minor "human errors"the
original count. The PRD supporters of
ndres Manuel Lopez Obrador are seeking to have the entire
voteral key Sonoran districts nullified. The PRD held very
nstrations August 12 at the highway tollmosillo airport. End
Summary.The August 9-14 vote recount of sane of the presidentialt
in the northern Mexican state of Sonora isd. For the whole state,
802 "casillas" (voting
were subject to the recount after the Party ofemocratic
Revolution (PRD) filed formal challenges. Thetricts were: #1 San
Luis Rio Colorado (74 casillas);
North Hermosillo (216); #4 Guaymas (123); #sillo (216); #6
Ciudad Obregon (160); and #7
oa (86). The Federal Electoral Tribune (TEPJF) delegated
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the Federal Judiciary (PJF).NCLASSIFIED3. (U) The official
results of the local recount are not yetreleased, but are already
hotly contested. Officials of theNational Action Party (PAN) of
Felipe Calderon, who apparentlycarried Sonora overwhelmingly, claim
that the recount foundminor differences numbering only around
several hundred (andaffecting both major candidates) in the whole
state, a totalwhich would not impact significantly on the outcome.
They chalkup those differences to human error. The most
publicized"error" was an apparent crediting of 101 more votes in
oneDistrict 3 casilla to Calderon than existing ballots. After afew
days of speculation about problems of this dimensionossibly being
rife in Sonora, the missing ballots turned up inthe sealed packet
for the municipal election held simultaneouslyon July 2, erasing
that discrepancy.4. (SBU) However, PRD officials, fighting for
their candidatendres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMU)) however, are
claiming that
n a high percentage (80 percent, they assert)
They urge that all votes in Districts 3, 4illo and Guaymas),
should be nullified.(Comment: In the unlikely event that the PRD
suggestions were
the effect of lowering Calderon's vote90 thousand votes, with a
less dramatic impact on
MLO, who received far fewer votes in the original count. End
(U) Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours, an Institutionalevolutionary
Party (PRI) politician, publicly vouched for the
RD initially claimed Bours had worked in favor of Calderoninst
AMLO, but backed off when the Governor challengedf. In advance of
the official recount
ts, Archbishop Jose Ulises Macias Salcedo called on AMLOd accept
the numbers if
(U) Meanwhile, the PRD has pursued a small scale campaign ofn
August 12, the Principal Officer (PO) observed that fifteenRD
supporters had taken over the toll booths just outside of
n Highway 15, the main road north to Nogales. Theyso with no
resistance. No police officers
as the PRD followers held up signs calling for as and trucks
(U) PO arrived at Hermosillo Airport too late to witness the
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