Officials start hand count of disputed ballot boxes
No let-up in fears that election has been rigged to keep leftwinger out of office
HONDURAS’S Supreme Electoral Tribunal began a hand count yesterday of 1,031 “inconsistent” ballot boxes.
The tribunal claimed to have finished counting 95 per cent of the ballot boxes from last Sunday’s presidential election.
But there is a widespread fear that the count, which has taken far longer than in previous years, is being rigged to deny power to left-leaning challenger Salvador Nasralla.
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