If MR or SF wanted a few more votes

.. they should have just opened their eyes and realized that recorded phone calls and texts and the posters don't cut it for us anymore.

Blink and you will miss 50 posters and 3 billboards. Seeing their faces plastered everywhere in different angles and backdrops? That's sure to get my vote. Because an election is all about the Mr Photogenic competition. What they should have done was, the unexpected.

Declare a poster, advertisement, billboard, sms free campaign. And donate all those billions to the Cancer hospital and the Health sector, where people are dying everyday because they can't buy that 500 rupees worth medicine that they can't get from the government hospitals that no longer have the money to stock them. I find it criminal that people are paid 1000 rupees a DAY to paste posters of the candidates when patients are screaming out in pain because they can't get that painkiller. And this is just not just one or two. There are actually thousands of people all over the country who are facing this right now.

It wouldn't matter to me that the candidate did it solely to win election votes and that he would not have done it otherwise. Because its win win for me. You spend your allocated billions on people who really need it, who in turn will be so grateful and vote for you. And then you win over people like me, who had no intention to vote for you ever, just because you thought of spending that money that way.

It sounds very basic, but it works. All people can talk about now are who to vote for and about the truly absurd amount of billions that are being spent. Spend it on what really needs to be spent on right now.

That's what wins your vote.

Oh and, did everyone get the Sunday Observer FREE at every Keells today?