MANILA, Philippines — With the prevalence of online banking and cashless transactions especially during the pandemic, the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday admitted that monitoring vote-buying in the 2022 national elections — transacted electronically — poses a “great challenge.”
PNP chief Guillermo Eleazar said the police force is already bracing for such, and will step up its monitoring capacity.
“Monitoring vote-buying activities in the 2022 elections will really be a great challenge to us but I assure the voting public that we will put in place safeguards against this practice,”Eleazar explained in a statement on Monday.
Eleazar, however, assured that the …
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