Mexico to Recount More Than Half the Ballot Boxes in Presidential Vote MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican election officials said Wednesday that they were recounting more than half the ballot boxes used in the presidential election on Sunday after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies. Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during the voting, 78,012 will be opened and the votes recounted, said Edmundo Jacobo, executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute. The recount could be done Thursday, he said. With 99 percent of the vote tallied in the preliminary count, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party led with 38 percent of the vote. Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party finished second with 32 percent. The authorities will also recount 61 percent of the ballot boxes in the voting for Senate seats and 60 percent in the voting for the lower house of Congress, Mr. Jacobo said. Mr. Peña Nieto expressed confidence on Wednesday about the recount. "I trust that the final tally will be consistent with the preliminary count," he said. Mr. López Obrador has refused to accept the preliminary results, saying the campaign had been marred by overspending, vote-buying and favorable treatment of Mr. Peña Nieto by Mexico's semi-monopolized television industry.