Ecuador recounts portion of presidential votes Ecuador’s National Electoral Council on Tuesday recounts 11.2% of the ballots from the country's presidential election earlier this month. Socialist Lenin Moreno won the April 2 second round with a 51.15 percent share -- more than 226,000 votes ahead of his conservative rival Guillermo Lasso, who has alleged fraud, refused to accept the result and asked for a full recount. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES