8am at the second busiest voting center in El Salvador, 131 voting tables stretch over a kilometre down the streets of Usulután, El Salvador. Salvadorans went to the polls last Sunday in record numbers: 60% of the 4.3 million registered voters showed up to vote. Such turnout is significant given the lack of confidence in the electoral system in El Salvador, a country which has suffered a turbulent history of high level political corruption, military rule, fraudulent elections, and a bloody, decade-long civil war. As a result, only half of Salvadorans said they had confidence in the electoral process and only 42.6% believed the elections would be clean, according to pre election polling by the University Institute of Public Opinion (IUDOP) at the University of Central America.
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