The Commission on Elections said on Wednesday, Feb. 16 that they brought up the issue of vote buying with providers of e-wallet systems and financial companies.
Jimenez has earlier mentioned that vote buying no longer happens on the actual day of the election but is already occurring even during the campaign period. “Remember this is a very tricky area because we’re talking about how people are spending their money. So basically what we’ll have to do is we want to find out how we can use data or information to point us to potential offenders,” he said.
On the kind of transactions to be on the lookout for if they at some point would monitor, Jimenez said that they would look for suspicious patterns such as when a huge amount gets deposited into account and smaller amounts get distributed.