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Huge sums will change hands these next few days. As campaigning ends, national candidates will deliver bags of cash to local counterparts. The latter’s task is retail cheating. A P1,000-bill or two will be given to the voter with instuctions on which names to shade in the ballot. Voters will be fed and bused to polling precincts. The uncooperative will be paid off too to stay home on Election Day, rather than vote for the opponents. Dirty money can also be sent online. Politicos devise ways to ensure that bribed voters comply. The old “lansadera” scheme in handwritten ballots can be applied in…