Many of the articles in Solita Colas-Monsod's Get Real column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer I missed when they came out but having read them I realized the treasures they bring for voter education during the campaign period of the Philippine National Elections 2010 that culminated on May 10. Monsod is a member of the group distinguished for its commitment to provide undisclosed information about candidate information that may not have been done so for self-interest reasons, the Movement for Good Governance (MGG). Requirements to Cheat in the Polls Noynoy's Lead and Binay's Surge [30 April 2010] From an assumption that respondents of the most recent Pulse Asia survey do not change their mind come election day, Monsod believes that it will take so much cheating to defeat Aquino in the presidential contest: "That 19-percent difference, plus or minus 2 percent, means that, assuming a voter turnout of 80 percent (translating to about 40 million voters) and there’s n...
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