Ecuador's Right-Wing Opposition Doesn't Show Up to Public Recount it Demanded

[Judi Lynn]

Ecuador's Right-Wing Opposition Doesn't Show Up to Public Recount it Demanded



The recount is observed by electoral council members, delegates from political parties and
international observers. | Photo: teleSUR

Published 18 April 2017 (8 hours 16 minutes ago)


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Ecuador's National Electoral Council began a recount process Tuesday of all the ballots that had inconsistencies during the April 2 presidential elections, where Lenin Moreno was declared the president-elect.

A total of 3,865 ballot packages will be reviewed, which represent 1,275,450 votes, or 11.2 percent of the total votes across the country and abroad. These are the ballots that both parties Alianza Pais and CREO-SUMA presented documentation and legal complaints against.

CNE officials completed the scanning process of the recounted ballots and added the reports to the final tally. The process is open to the public and includes the presence of political parties, military and police, and international observers.

More than 700 people in 250 work tables from the electoral council at the Coliseum Ruminñahui of the capital city of Quito expect to finish the recount process at 8 p.m. local time.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuadors-Right-Wing-Opposition-Doesnt-Show-Up-to-Public-Recount-it-Demanded-20170418-0015.html

[Warpy]

1. That's because they lost votes in the first one

and probably realize this one is just as futile, they were squawking about making it public just for show, hoping the government wouldn't want the incur the expense, giving them ammo to unseat them at the next election.

Their bluff got called and now they're no shows.