ON NOVEMBER 25th The Economist published an article suggesting that Honduras’s ruling party may have had plans to distort the results of a general election to be held the next day. Here we present excerpts and transcripts from a tape of what appears to be a training session for National Party poll workers,on which the article was based. The Economist received the recording from a participant, who also described what was happening in the room at the time. Our descriptions of the gestures of the woman main the session are based on that testimony. We have distorted her voice.With roughly 75% of ballots counted, or Salvador Nasralla of the opposition Libre party leads the presidential race by less than one percentage point. Both he and the incumbent,Juan Orlando Hernández of the National Party, are claiming...
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Source: economist.com