If we need to act, we will, especially now that disinformation and all kinds of ‘election cheating’ are intensifying,” it said. Difficult timesUniversity of the Philippines Prof. Danilo Arao, a convenor of Kontra Daya, told INQUIRER.net that since 2007, when the elections were still manual, cheating was already widespread. Tricking the way to victoryINQUIRER.net lists down the most prevalent ways of election cheating in the Philippines, as discussed by Arao, former Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio and the Administration and Cost of Elections Project (ACE). Arao said that in elections—manual or automated—vote-buying is the most prevalent way of cheating. Ballots are issued to persons other than the registered voters and are filled up by the co-conspirators of the cheating candidate.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 06, 2022 12:50 UTC