Mexico’s presidential election is still too close to call as electoral authorities work around the clock to verify millions of votes. ??With nearly 98 percent of the votes recounted, conservative candidate Felipe Calderon holds a razor-thin lead–around point zero five of a percent–over populist rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. ??Both candidates have insisted they will win the election. The Federal Electoral Institute says it expects to announce the result soon. As the final figures come in, the gap between the two has narrowed to just thousands of votes out of a total of 41 million ballots cast. ??Lopez Obrador refused to accept preliminary results issued earlier this week that gave Calderon a narrow lead. He alleged there had been “serious evidence of fraud”, and said that if he lost he would call for a ballot-by-ballot recount. He said the initial results had “many inconsistencies” and his party claimed some voting places were counted twice while others were not counted at all.