TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 18 – The Honduran electoral council on Thursday started a delayed, manual count of tally sheets containing hundreds of thousands of votes of the Central American nation’s November 30 presidential election.
The electoral council has said that the votes now being revised showed inconsistencies and were therefore excluded from the initial count.
Adding those ballots to the overall count could overturn conservative Nasry Asfura’s razor-thin lead. Asfura is currently ahead of center-right candidate Salvador Nasralla by just 43,000 votes – out of more than 3 million cast.
(Reporting by Laura Garcia; Editing by Kylie Madry)
