MADURAI: The DMK unit here is reportedly adopting a new technique to bribe voters. It is scientific. And it is done through tokens. It is perhaps a foolproof method to ensure that the money is not pilfered. The matter came to light when a DMK functionary, engaged in distributing tokens, unknowingly issued tokens to some media persons. Here’s how the system allegedly works: party workers visit each house in each street and understand the pulse of the voters. They thus create a comprehensive database of each street. The database includes the names of the voters, caste, political inclination and demands, if any. After completing the survey, they distribute a copy of the party candidate M K Azhagiri’s manifesto to each voter. The manifesto contains a unique serial number, name and address of the voter. This is the token. The activist who distributes the token makes an entry in the master list of the people who have received them. The token is distributed to all voters, cutting across party lines. Each voter is then told to visit the party office at a specified time to collect his share of the money for the vote. One of the local DMK functionaries was reportedly seen distributing money in Cholai Azhagupuram. He was heard telling the voters there that they had planned to give away up to Rs 2,000 per vote.Another local DMK functionary, who was seen distributing these tokens, told the voters that they had introduced the token system as the party had been receiving complaints that the money did not reach a few voters in the same street but was promptly delivered to the house next door. He said that people took money when offered and later commented that taking money did not bind them to exercise their vote only to the ‘rising sun’. When asked why this system was introduced, he said it would not only facilitate prompt distribution of money but could also track the areas that had neglected ‘Anja Nenjar’ by exercising their vote for another party