Last week, candidates from all parties were starting to drop like flies as they were disendorsed by their parties for embarrassing remarks they had made on so-called social media. The dumped candidates still stay on the ballot paper, of course, but they will not be elected because they will not have volunteers at polling booths to hand out how-to-vote cards and without a card to copy from, most voters would not know how to cast a valid vote if their life depended on it.