As Mexico gears up for its presidential election, international observers are checking for signs of fraud.<br/> <br />Hundreds of monitors are deployed across the country, which hopes to prove that practices of vote-rigging are in the past.<br/> <br />Electoral officials met with leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party after he raised concerns of vote-buying.<br/> <br />Obrador's loss to President Felipe Calderon in 2006 sparked massive protests amid fraud allegations.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZILIAN ELECTION OBSERVER, PAULO FERREIRA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Mexico has surprised me that for an evolved and advanced country with a common electoral process the voting mechanics are still tainted following decades of an insecure process from the point of view of confidence and transparency."<br/> <br />The presence of nearly 700 observers from 69 countries make this Mexico's most closely monitored election.<br/> <br />But voters are still wary - a local polling organisation survey showed only 30 percent had high confidence in the country's electoral authorities.<br/> <br />Lindsey Parietti, Reuters
