Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Paid campaign workers find 'fake' returns

Out of sheer ignorance, political partisans in places such as Pasig, Manila, and Taguig have been blocking vehicles and accosting people bringing heaps of election returns...

What they don't know is that there are six or seven copies of these precinct returns and the major and minor parties are entitled to one copy each so they can count the votes on their own. Paranoia over fraud has made everyone with a thick brown envelope a suspect...

These same "volunteers" will later flock to campaign headquarters for food and cash only to find out that the money for their pay is missing. Suddenly, anger shifts to their candidate. Elections are really messy.

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