Mr Matilda was out all night rounding up supporters and taking them to Night clubs. The clubs are used as a sort of holding pen!!! Not a disco. They do this as it is very common for the opposition party to pay 1000-2000 RD$ to borrow someones cedula so they are unable to vote fot the one party and then it get used to vote for the opposition! Therefore they get the people off the street so they are not tempted to sell! In the clubs they serve ginger tea as there is no alcohol. This keeps out the cold (!!) and also keeps people awake till 4am when they are taken to join the queue at the voting station.
Voting has been steady here today and no trouble at all.
Matilda
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