After Fraud Allegations, Mexico Orders Presidential Recount
<div class='node-body'><p>Mexico is recounting more than half the ballots that were cast during Sunday's presidential election, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during Sunday's vote, 78,012 will be opened and the votes recounted, said Edmundo Jacobo, executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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