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SWS: 26% plan to watch vote-counting

VOTERS have varied planned activities for the May elections, according to the Social Weather Stations’ February survey. It said 26 percent plan to watch the counting of votes, 23 percent attend political rallies of candidates and 20 percent serve in organizations that will help in having an orderly and clean election.Other planned activities: be a

By verafiles

Apr 30, 2010

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VOTERS have varied planned activities for the May elections, according to the Social Weather Stations’ February survey.

It said 26 percent plan to watch the counting of votes, 23 percent attend political rallies of candidates and 20 percent serve in organizations that will help in having an orderly and clean election.Other planned activities: be a watcher for a political candidate (15 percent), put up posters for politicians (11 percent), actively campaign for a political candidate (9 percent), and be a member of the Board of Election Inspectors (3 percent).

In SWS’ three pre-election surveys of 2007, to watch vote-counting and to attend political rallies were also the top planned activities at the time.

The poll was conducted from Feb. 24 to 28 using face-to-face interviews of 2,100 registered voters.

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