Word: frauds
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...fairly. During the P.R.I.'s lengthy reign, one of its ! most notorious achievements was its skill at arranging not to lose. But this time the electoral process had been significantly reformed, and more than 80,000 observers were stationed around the country to fend off the fraud that has been the rule so often before. The watchers, both Mexican and foreign, spotted many violations but agreed that they had seen the most open and honest election in Mexico this century...
...Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), led by economist Ernesto Zedillo, won the presidency of Mexico and an overwhelming legislative majority as well. With voter turnout at an impressive 77%, the election was generally regarded as clean, despite accusations of fraud from diehard rebels in the southern state of Chiapas...
Four employees of the Resolution Trust Corporation, the S&L bailout agency, have filed suit against their bosses for allegedly cracking down on them when they tried to expose waste and fraud. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, claims the RTC has systematically targeted employees who testified before Congress, cooperated with General Accounting Office probes or alerted the agency's inspector general about problems...
...totals were off because of a shortage of absentee ballots and scattered irregularities. Cardenas, who lost the 1988 election to the P.R.I.'s Carlos Salinas de Gortari, drew at least 20,000 people to a central Mexico City square on Monday to protest an election he called "a colossal fraud." He plans another rally Saturday...
...election ever. For the first time since 1929, the long tradition of fraudulent elections has given way to a belief that the opposition has a genuine chance of winning. Yet most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free. "I don't support any candidate because all I see is corruption and promises that are never kept," said Fidel Lopez Cruz, 67, as he pushed his crude ox-drawn plow across a small plot of land near Oaxaca. If the public concludes the results have been fixed...