Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Paying for votes

The Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) launched its perliminary findings for its finance investigation. Vote buying occurred, according to the LTA, widely in Zahle, Saida, Zghorta, Metn, Batroun and West Bekka. How much was paid for a Vote varied: Saida the price was $60-100; $800 in Zahle and up to $3,000 in Zghorta. The LTA also noted that a large amount of financial abuses were done before the campaign monitoring period began. A full report will be published at the end of the summer.

1 comment:

  1. I don't understand you people it is not about selling or buying votes ... the problem is the lack of freedom in choosing the right candidate and lack of choices.
    why don't you talk about vote forcing...some people are voting by force. It happened to me because i belong to a certain community and ethnic group.

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