Vote-Rigging and Pig-Swapping in Papua New Guinea (2002)

Pigs and Politics (2002): The 2002 Papua New Guinean elections finally drew to a close seven weeks after polling began. This extraordinary report substantiates accusations of vote-rigging and violence that dogged the elections. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures It’s about 4am in the capital of Enga province in PNG. Suddenly, a huge explosion fills the sky. A shipping container housing more than a third of the province’s completed ballot papers has just been blown up. This is just one incident in an election marked by voter intimidation and gang violence. From start to finish, the election process is farcical. We follow campaigners as they bribe entire tribes to vote for them in exchange for pigs. We then watch as a governor’s son sits and fills in entire stacks of ballot papers in favour of his father as mystified voters stand by. But the whole charade turns out to be for nothing anyway, as the ballot boxes are sabotaged by bandits and the votes destroyed. For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/1355/pigs-and-politics Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures SBS Australia – Ref. 1355