Five hours after the 54,641 polling stations closed and three hours after the first results were expected, the Interior Ministry in Mexico City announced that its new computerized tabulating system was not working. Despite the absence of official returns, the three major campaign organizations had plenty to say last week. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) proclaimed that its candidate, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had won a "crushing, indisputable, unobjectionable victory" in his race for the presidency. The coalition of leftist parties backing Cuauhtemoc Cardenas claimed that its man was ahead with 39% of the vote, and charged that the P.R.I....
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