How does CHEATING in the Philippine election started?

Question

Please help me to find some articles about how does cheating started especially in Philippines. Thanks! God will bless those people who will give contributions for this findings..

Answer 1

For a good example look up Jimmy Carter and Venezuela

Answer 2

Meg,

I do apologize for the Brain Dead War Monger that answered before me.

He obviously does not know the difference between the Philippines and Venezuela.

I will do my best to enlighten you about cheating in the Philippine elections

This is "How Cheating Is Done During Philippine Elections," according to the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections

(1) Bribery. Vote buying or getting a voter to vote for a particular candidate by paying him off. "Buying abstentions" or "negative vote-buying." Here the voter who is expected to vote for the opponent is urged not to vote. There is the promise of jobs or loans, or even promotion to make a voter pick particular candidates, or for him not to cast his ballot at all.

(2) Intimidation. Direct threats to voters identified with a particular party not to vote. If this does not work, the voter’s family is threatened, and even his business or property is included in the "threat package."

(3) Illegal use of indelible ink. Originally conceived as a check against flying voters, it may be used as a tool for cheating. It is applied to the voters’ right forefinger before he goes to the polling area so that he will not be allowed to vote.

(4) Abduction. Voters could be abducted or held in inaccessible places so they could not vote.

(5) Registered voters identified with a rival party are assigned to places far from their precincts.

(6) They could sow fear and unrest to discourage voters from going out to vote.

(7) Disruption of means of transportation. Political cheats could also disrupt the means of transportation to distant polling places.

(8) Expect, too, the spread of false reports about withdrawals or disqualifications of candidates such that their voters would no longer cast their votes in their favor.

(9) Changing the numbering of precincts without notice.

(10) Changing of location of precincts. This appears to have already started, at least, in Quezon City with 1.06 million voters, which confused voters as to where they should cast their votes due to the changes in the numbering and location of polling places without notice.

(11) Marking the ballots so these will be considered spoiled ballots.

Here is a famous example of election cheating in the Philippines;

On August 21, 1983, the popular alleged left-leaning senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. (popularly known as "Ninoy") was assassinated at the then-Manila International Airport (now known as Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA) after returning from a three-year exile in the United States. His assassination shocked and outraged civilians most of whom had by then lost confidence in Marcos' leadership. It also shook the Marcos government which was by then seems deteriorating, in part due to Marcos' worsening and eventually fatal illness. Following this, Ninoy's wife Corazon (popularly known as Cory) became a popular rallying figure against the Marcos regime.

On November 23, 1985, Marcos, after alleged pressure from Washington, suddenly announced that there would be snap presidential elections early the following year, one year ahead of schedule. This was legalized with the passage of Batas Pambansa Blg. 883. The growing opportunist opposition movement used Corazon Aquino as their presidential candidate, with Salvador Laurel running for vice-president. Marcos himself ran for re-election, with Arturo Tolentino as his running mate.

The elections were held on February 7, 1986. The electoral exercise was marred by widespread reports of violence and tampering of election results by the alleged communists and left-leaning opportunists. The official election canvasser, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), declared Marcos the victor. The final tally of COMELEC, the official Philippine poll body, had Marcos winning with 10,807,197 votes to Aquino's 9,291,761 votes. The final tally of the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL-Cory's Counting Machinery), an accredited poll watcher, had Aquino winning with 7,835,070 votes to Marcos' 7,053,068 votes.
But due to the reports of alleged fraud, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement condemning the elections, the United States Senate passed a resolution stating the same.

Later Cory Aquino was inaugurated as President of the Philippines.

Marcos and his family were transported by four American helicopters to Clark Air Base in Pampanga, before heading on to Guam, and finally to Hawaii.

When the news of Marcos's departure reached the people, many rejoiced and danced. Over at Mendiola, the demonstrators were finally able to enter Malacañang Palace and stole a lot of things, long denied to some Filipinos in the past decade. Looting by overly angry protesters occurred, but mostly people wandered inside, looking at the place where all the decisions that changed the course of Philippine history had been made.

** Here is some more information pertaining to the election cheating in the Philippines:

http://politicaljunkie.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_politicaljunkie_archive.html

http://www.network54.com/Forum/5345/viewall-page-82

http://www.philsol.nl/pir/JR-98a.htm

http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=333

I hope this helps.