Could Peru's contested votes swing the election?
Article content  LIMA  Counting is nearly over in Perus highly polarized election https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/socialist-castillo-holds-slim-lead-peru-presidential-vote-count-reaches-tense-2021-06-08. With 96% of votes counted, socialist candidate Pedro Castillo is ahead of rightwing rival Keiko Fujimori by just 79,000 votes, or 0.45 percentage point. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Back to video  There are about 750,000 votes that remain to be counted as of Tuesday morning, according to Reuters calculations. On Monday evening, Fujimori said supporters of her rival had tried to steal votes, pointing to ballots that have been sent for further review. Election experts say no. We are here before an absolutely normal process, Peru has one of the best electoral systems in Latin America, said Ivan Lanegra, head of watchdog Transparencia. International observers have also said Perus voting process was clean. Exactly 1,369 ballot tables so far have been sent for further review, a number not significantly higher than in the last election cycle. The reasons are diverse, from a lack of signatures to arithmetic mistakes to doubts about whether a vote was properly marked in a ballot.