Saturday's conflict erupted during a meeting to discuss a preliminary analysis of what went wrong in the 2012 election and what it will take to do better at the polls in the future.
So what that meant is that the election officials couldn't use those tallies in their preliminary results that came out Sunday night and into Monday morning.
"The Mexican electoral crisis deepened Tuesday, as the leftist candidate demanded a vote-by-vote recount and election officials acknowledged that up to 3 million votes had not been tallied in the preliminary results, " write James C.