White Snake John Pundari’s Manipulations of 2017 Electoral Process Revealed
by Peter Balos This is my third piece concerning corruption in Kompiam-Ambum Electorate. Unlike the two previous pieces, this piece principally reveals illegal and irregular deals done to manipulate the electoral process with the aim of winning this 2017 General Election by such fraud instead of true votes. 2. Creation of duplicate unpopular wards. (a) Lakapos 2 ward. Usually, Lakapos Ward is Ward 2 in the Ambum Rural. Lakapos has over 1200 eligible votes from Mulyao and Aiyele clans (Mulyao kungu) and its polling place is Rakapos. To our surprise without proper consultation, a ward purportedly called Lakapos 2 was secretly created. Interestingly, it is not appearing on the common roll. Nevertheless, on the gazetted polling places, it appears. Its polling place is Hap. Hap is an isolated (not connected by road) bush village. It is not the ideal polling place. The ideal polling place is Lakapos where Aiyele, Kagatae and Takeo sub-clans used to cast votes. Mr. Pundari use