Tanzania has seen its fair share of corruption cases, but vote buying for the 2010 general election turned into a circus, with everything from candidates paying rivals to pull out of the race to soccer matches organized around offering money in exchange for votes.
Tanzanian report Mike Mande tells the story in Vote Buying Mars Tanzania’s Politics, which was part of the Corruption Notebooks series in the Global Integrity Report: 2010.
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