Despite the praise heaped on the voting by U.S. President Barack Obama and others, the 2012 elections were marred by scattered outbreaks of violence, widespread accusations of vote-buying by the different political parties, especially the PRI, and the systematic disenfranchisement of large numbers of voters.
‘I feel defrauded’
Informed of their inability to vote downtown, some people complained to personnel from the electoral crimes division of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR) who were staffing an adjacent table but were told that no crime had been committed. A PGR official who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity said the IFE had done an inadequate job in publicizing the special precincts, but that the law stipulated the number of ballots for each special polling place was limited to 750....