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With Lanao del Sur communities plagued by poverty and short in social services, election season is considered ?paskuhan? (Christmas season). Politicians? money flows like rain, mainly to buy the votes of the residents. As if vote buying were not enough, the elections there, like elsewhere in the country, were chaotic. 
Related story: Elections, Lanao-style
Pandemonium and scuffles break out in several precincts as special elections are held in Lanao del Sur towns. With soldiers deployed in schools and halls leading to precincts littered with garbage and reeking of manure, and many ballots uncounted, one would ask what?s so ?special? about the special elections held here on May 26.
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