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Vote-buying has started—Comelec

By MIKHA FLORES THREE weeks to go to the May 13 polls, the Commission on Elections is starting to receive reports of vote-buying by candidates. Elections Commissioner Grace Padaca said Monday she has received reports that rice and grocery items were being doled out by politicians in her hometown in Isabela but she declined to

By verafiles

Apr 22, 2013

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By MIKHA FLORES

THREE weeks to go to the May 13 polls, the Commission on Elections is starting to receive reports of vote-buying by candidates.

Elections Commissioner Grace Padaca said Monday she has received reports that rice and grocery items were being doled out by politicians in her hometown in Isabela but she declined to name the candidates.

Padaca also cited instances where voters were given transportation money to Visayas in exchange for votes.

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