Magic mathematics: when votes multiply themselves
Ah, Mexican democracy. That beautiful spectacle where the laws of physics and mathematics seem to be temporarily suspended. The National Electoral Institute (INE), in its infinite wisdom, has decided to annul 11 boxes where the miracle of the loaves and fishes occurred… but in an electoral version. As? Simple: in those places, participation exceeded 100%. Yes, you read that right: more votes than voters! Should someone nominate these logistics geniuses for the Nobel Prize for…creativity?
The champions of supernatural participation
In Chiapas, land of mysteries and now of ghost votes, six polling stations achieved the impossible. In the district of Tonalá, for example, three sections reached participations of 101.90%, 100.53% and a modest 100%. How conformist these last ones! In one box, the nominal list was 1,001 people, but 1,020 voted. Will they be traveling voters of the future? Or did someone simply miscount… or overcount?
But not only Chiapas shines in this Olympics of the absurd. In Guerrero, two polling stations in Zihuatanejo and one in Ciudad Altamirano (where, by the way, organized crime had already forced the suspension of elections in four others) achieved similar feats. And in Michoacán, box 627 of Pátzcuaro took the gold with a 102.12% participation. 754 people on the list, but 770 votes! Did anyone bring their pets to vote?
The most creative excuses of the year
The INE, in an attempt to save the unsalvageable, argues that in three cases there was “transfer of voters” authorized. Of course, because nothing says “electoral transparency” like moving citizens from one place to another like chess pieces. But the best comes later: the report mentions boxes with “single votes for candidates with various aggravating circumstances” (?) and others where people were detected using “accordions” (music students or voters with fragile memories?). Of course: the data tables appear blank. Because, why document anomalies if you can leave empty spaces?
And the jewel in the crown could not be missing: a section on boxes with more than 50% participation where, according to the INE, it was “impossible” for so many people to have attended. So who voted? Ghosts? Robots? Or did someone simply forget that in Mexico, sometimes numbers are more of a suggestion than a fact?
Moral: If you see more votes than voters at your polling station, don’t worry. Surely it’s just a democratic miracle… or a reminder that, in politics, reality often surpasses fiction.
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