“What’s keeping the poll body from running after candidates who will resort to online vote-buying in the May polls?” This coming May midterm elections, we
“What’s keeping the poll body from running after candidates who will resort to online vote-buying in the May polls?”
Leonilo Mende, chairman of LPMFC, has sounded the alarm over recent moves by a group of women conducting a door-to-door campaign in several of the city’s barangays to gather personal information of registered voters purportedly for ‘ayuda’ and cash assistance purposes. Mende said voters could suddenly receive money in their e-wallets hours before election day. Then the candidate’s group may also ask for a photo of the election ballot to make sure that the residents voted for their candidate.
The main target of the unidentified members of the group are mostly families in the depressed areas in the city’s District 1 and 2 who were promised a supply to five kilos of rice and groceries per week until the May elections, according to Las Piñas Councilor Mark Anthony Santos. Vote-buying schemes through electronic money transfer methods gained popularity in the 2022 polls because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now they are likely to be used more widely as more people turn to digital devices for various tasks.
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