ALICE Guo became mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, because her incredulous electoral filings slipped through the cracks and the weak spots in our electoral system. The hard questions, such as Were her Commission on Elections (Comelec) documents legitimate? were not even asked despite the screaming red flags and her documented association with a long list of foreign criminals and grifters. Was the constitutional guardrail on the citizenship provision, the basic requirement for those seeking electoral posts, set aside by local electoral officials dazzled by her display of wealth and ostentatiousness? Was her main rival for mayor, a village captain with barely any resources, intimidated by Guo s support from the then-ruling powers that whatever weak protests he wanted to file on her poseur status were totally ignored and forgotten?