Votes for gift cards, election fraud at its best in Mexico

Soriana's chain stores packed in the State of Mexico and the Federal District

Fearing the PRI (Institutional Revolution Party) would cancel their gift cards, hundreds of people turned up at Soriana supermarkets around the Federal District's outskirts to spend the store credit card representatives of said party had given them in exchange of their vote for Enrique Peña Nieto and other candidates from the Alliance for Mexico.

Worth from $300 to $700 pesos (roughly from $22 to $52 USD) the cards were distributed after voting and proving their choice, one card was handled over per checked vote, people could bring somebody else to vote for the PRI's candidate and that would also give them a card. Each store credit card could be used to buy groceries and home appliances.

Even the supermarket's cashiers identified the cards as "the ones the PRI gave away in exchange for votes". The voters were told that this was just a part of what the candidates could achieve if they got to the positions they were competing for.

Last week the PRD (Democratic Revolution Party) reported the delivery of over a million Soriana store credit cards in the center of Mexico to buy votes from the people; the PAN (National Action Party) also reported a similar strategy, debit cards from the MONEX bank which were to receive a deposit if the holder voted in favor of the Alliance for Mexico's candidates; the elections' court did not freeze either activity arguing lack of evidence.

editorial@sandiegored.com

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