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How to cheat Colombias elections: The machinery
written by Adriaan Alsema October 20, 2017
Establishment candidate and Colombia’s former president German Vargas is reportedly collecting favors from state officials to obtain the signatures to run in the 2018 presidential election.
According to Ibague-based paper El Olfato, the candidate has resorted to one of the most common forms or election fraud in Colombia called “the machinery,” a network of befriended executives within public institutions.
In Tolima, employees of the office of Governor Oscar Barreto (Conservative Party) were allowed to pay a maximum of eight friends or family members to obtain the signatures, multiple anonymous officials told the newspaper.
According to the sources, the informal network paid $10 for every 15 votes obtained by an illegal campaigner.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/cheat-colombias-elections-machinery/