AlGoro Goes to Court

Here goes the Mexican version of Florida 2000:

With Mexico snarled in political uncertainty, the leading leftist candidate headed to court Sunday evening to begin a legal fight against what appears to be a razor-thin victory by his conservative rival in the presidential election a week ago.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ("AlGoro") said his lawyers would give the Federal Electoral Court evidence of fraud, including computerized manipulation of the results, a day after he held a mammoth rally in Mexico City's historic center and called on his supporters to help keep his hope alive.

The legal appeal would not seek to annul the July 2 election, but to force authorities to conduct a manual recount of all 41 million ballots. Over 100,000 supporters rallying in the capital's main plaza Saturday chanted "Vote by vote!"

I hope they have as much fun with it as we did.