Nearly 80 per cent of the respondents admitted vote-buying took place in their communities, said the Abac poll conducted by Assumption University, whose results were published on the English-language Bangkok Post website.
Of those surveyed, 53.2 percent said they would take such electoral bribes.
Another 40.2 percent would not accept the money, while 6.6 per cent were non-committal, according to the survey of 2,604 eligible voters in 18 provinces of Thailand, where a national election is due some time this year.
Nearly 70 percent of those who said they would take the bribes were from the northeast -- the heartland of Thailand`s anti-government "Red Shirts" -- while the next biggest group were those in Bangkok. (*)
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