Flying voters, in this era of automated elections, seem to be an aberration. The practice of bringing in voters to voting precincts in areas other than their real place of residence was thought to have been a relic of the old Philippine election system marked by guns, goons, and gold. But the discovery last week of nearly half a million double or multiple election registrants has proven that the same dirty tricks are still very much around. Commission on Elections chair George Garcia recently said that the Comelec was able to detect over 400,000 people who registered multiple times during the Dec.

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