before destroying them to erase doubt:
Electoral officials said Tuesday that they will burn the ballots from the disputed presidential election despite calls from both candidates to spare them.Weissert/AP/CAChron 13.09.06
Luis Carlos Ugalde, chairman of the Federal Electoral Institute, or IFE, said in a letter to President-elect Felipe Calderon that a 1990 law clearly called for the burning of the ballots from the July 2 election.
'The IFE is obliged to destroy electoral documentation once the electoral process is concluded,' Ugalde wrote.
No date was set for the burning.
