It was by all accounts another day at the office for one of authoritarian Mexico's more modest parties seeking to contest yet another Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI)–state victory in the summer of 1988. The tiny Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM – usually a satellite of the PRI) had decided to contest extreme electoral fraud in congressional district 7 in the state of Guerrero. The PARM submitted its copies of the vote tallies to the new federal electoral court, with poll officials' signatures at odds with those on certified copies submitted by the Guerrero electoral commission. Blatant and extensive alteration of official results was acknowledged but then ignored in the verdict of the magistrates, who argued in the decision that while tampering was evident, the complaint was unfounded for failing to properly state the allegations, and that because the electoral court “facing the judicial impossibility of accessing the electoral packets which should be in the Chamber of Deputies, confronted a technical and legal impediment to determining which copy of the results is the real one” (Tribunal of Electoral Contention or TRICOEL RQ-007 resolution, 4).