COMMENT The gloves have come off in the final prelude to the 13th general election. We already knew it was going to be the dirtiest election ever. This was chiefly because of long festering suspicions over irregularities in the electoral rolls.

While those misgivings have recently intensified and some violent affrays have already occurred here and there, attention was diverted from the more salacious levels to which an all-out campaign could descend, giving smutty credence to the appellation ‘dirtiest ever' that has come to be bracketed with the GE13...