Sound familiar?

In Mexico, there is a form of recount where voting tally sheets are compared to the actual ballots. It's like comparing your shipping manifest to what's actually in the packing case. This form of recount has already been undertaken in some states, When you look at the real votes, what happened? Did the errors favor the conservative?

Surprise! Democracy Now:

JUAN GONZALEZ: In terms of the official count that did occur in the last -- in the midweek, there were instances where some ballot boxes were opened, and generally speaking, the counts, the actual counts, there improved the numbers for Lopez Obrador, didn't they, for the most part?

LAURA CARLSEN: Yes, that's exactly right. The ones that were opened, according to these very strict rules that the Federal Elections Institute has for which ones you open or not, they did have mistakes in them. And those mistakes generally did favor Felipe Calderon. This will be one of the -- certainly one of the arguments that the group of lawyers of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will put forward when they ask the court to review the matter, because they're saying that not only there are mistakes, but these mistakes tend to have a tendency to favor the rightwing candidate.

Je repete: Mexico 2006 = Ohio 2004 = Florida 2000. This fight is our fight, because when the wingers win anywhere, we lose everywhere.

NOTE The tallysheet recount does not address many of the other possibilities for election fraud: (1) software theft, which can only be addressed by a full recount, (2) fraudulent voter lists, as in the famous Florida felon list, and (3) the harshness of the campaign itself (some of Dick Morris's tactics for Calderon may have been illegal under Mexican law).