Archive for February 8th, 2006

TSE Rules Out International Observers in Hand Count

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

While the TSE invited international observers to witness the E-day activities, they have ruled out that the observers can monitor the hand count.  A group of 30 people held vigil on Monday night to pressure the use of international NGOs in the count.
TSE president, Óscar Fonseca, explained that " the Electoral Code does not […]

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TSE Announces Winner … To Be Announced

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

The TSE last night gave media the results of the manual scrutiny performed yesterday on 250 polling stations.  Some observers gave Oscar Arias an additional advantage of 800 votes based on these results, so Arias would now be winning by 4000 votes.  Others claimed that it was mathematically incorrect to add the results of the […]

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