Vote sellers fear reprisal from losing Abra bets
>> Tuesday, May 21, 2013
BANGUED, Abra – Voters in this
province who sold their votes are hiding for fear that the supporters of the
losing candidates might run after them.
“We are afraid they might shoot
us,” a 51-year-old farmer said over the radio.
He said many of them are in
hiding and wouldn’t disclose their whereabouts.
One voter said he was paid P3,000
to vote for a mayoral bet who lost in the election.
He said some of them started leaving
their homes even before the balloting closed last Monday as they sensed that
the candidate would lose.
“It’s safer to leave before they
start canvassing the votes in the precincts,” he said in Ilocano.
He refused to say if he voted for
the candidate.
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