What makes these machines rus is money according to out researchers a record amount of it this time around. The lion's share of funding typically comes from some combination of contributions from the congressional gubernatorial and mayoral candidate. For example the congressional candidate may pay for all the pollwatchers the gubernational candidate may pay for public meetings and logistics and they all may pitch in to fund vote buying. Neither national parties nor preaidential candidates contribute much in the way of resources. Council candidatesmay chip in organise supplemental campaigns from congress down is direct payments to voters. Vote buying goes by a variety of local names such as inangayan (sharing) or uwan-uwan (rain-rain) in parts of the Visayas 'special ops' or 'giving thank yous'