Peter Tiu Lavina, the spokesperson of aspiring president Mayor Rodrigo Duterte posted on his facebook account last Saturday, May 06, 2016 the massive vote-buying in the Visayas and Mindanao. Vote-buying was an old strategy to give the voters money in exchange of support to a certain candidate. However this recent report was not the usual buying to vote for a certain candidate but rather not to vote for Mayor Duterte as president. According to the camp of Mayor Duterte this strategy aimed to reduce the votes of Deuterte so that it will be easy to tamper the results such as transmission and canvassing manipulations. Came the reactions from netizens that this was now where the Yolanda funds went. Also some commented that some areas who were solid to support Duterte were already persuaded not to because of the money.
Lavina suggested to those offered the money to accept it but still vote for their chosen candidate. He added that voters must go in groups like family and friends on May 09 in coming to polling precincts so that harassments will be avoided.
Social Weather Station (SWS) and Pulse Asian Research pre-election surveys showed the consistency of Mayor Duterte in maintaining the lead. For days, he continued to lead with 11% difference versus the one who was next to him.
Many claimed the certainty of Mayor Duterte to be voted as the next President of the country. In the same way that they were certain he will be cheated on. However the supporters seemed to support him all the way that they were vigilant with anything related to the cheating of the coming election results.
Online information could really help a lot especially on the issue of cheating this coming election. May this would at least lessen the tampering so that there will be a fair result.
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