内容摘要：Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

While some voters said they felt pushed to vote in an election they felt would determine the fate of the country’s democracy, many more expressed a deep sense of apathy, citing disillusionment due to decades of corruption and lack of basic information about the vote.“I’m not interested (in voting). Parties and their messages – they come and they go. It’s all the same,” said Raul Bernal, a 50-year-old factory worker in downtown Mexico City walking is dog.

Yet the vote is set to transform Mexico’s judiciary. Mexico’s ruling party, Morena,late last year, fueling protests and criticism that the reform is an attempt by those in power to seize on their political popularity to gain control of the branch of government until now out of their reach.“It’s an effort to control the court system, which has been a sort of thorn in the side” of those in power, said Laurence Patin, director of the legal organization Juicio Justo in Mexico. “But it’s a counter-balance, which exists in every healthy democracy.”

Now, instead of judges being appointed on a system of merit and experience, Mexican voters have cast ballots to choose between some 7,700 candidates vying forMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, of Morena, rejected criticisms after voting on Sunday in a press conference, insisting that the election would only only make Mexico more democratic, and root out corruption in a system that most Mexicans believe is broken.

“Whoever says that there is authoritarianism in Mexico is lying,” she said. “Mexico is a country that is only becoming more free, just and democratic because that is the will of the people.”

Some voting centers throughout the country opened with only a trickle of people, and small lines forming throughout the day.Alanna Smith scored 16 points and McBride added 15 for Minnesota. Collier also had five rebounds and five steals.

Gabby Williams scored 20 points, Skylar Diggins added 18, Nneka Ogwumike 11 and Erica Wheeler 10 for Seattle (3-2).The Lynx hit six of their first seven shots and led 14-2 after 2 1/2 minutes. McBride made her first two shots in that sequence, both 3-pointers. Minnesota led 26-11 at the end of the quarter and 39-29 at halftime.

Late in the third quarter, Gabby Williams converted a three-point play and Diggins added two free throws to get Seattle within 48-45 with three minutes left in the quarter. Minnesota led 54-51 heading to the fourth.Minnesota visits Phoenix on Friday.