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===Political threats to voters === {{anchor | Threat | Threats | Voter | Voters }} The PAP has in the past threatened voters by saying that constituencies voting for opposition MPs would be put at the bottom of the list for public housing programs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aglionby |first=John |date=26 October 2001 |title=A tick in the only box |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/26/worlddispatch.johnaglionby |access-date=5 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title='Time to discard policies that divide S'poreans' |url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/time-discard-policies-divide-poreans-093909214.html |website=sg.news.yahoo.com|date=12 May 2011 }}</ref><ref name="KongYeoh2003">{{cite book|author1=Lily Kong|author2=Brenda S. A. Yeoh|title=The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of "Nation"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3kl4xgKJ6IC|date=1 February 2003|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2980-1|page=106}}</ref> In 1998, then PAP secretary-general, [[Goh Chok Tong]] said, "By linking the priority of upgrading to electoral support, we focus the minds of voters on the link between upgrading and the people whose policies make it possible. This has the desired result.".<ref>{{Cite news |date=1998-01-12 |title=Upgrading link swung vote in GE |work=The Straits Times |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19980112-1}}</ref> As recently as 2011 Lee Hsien Loong expressed that there has to be a distinction between opposition wards and the ones that voted for the PAP in terms of housing upgrades.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-04-06 |title= 'PM Lee, I don't get upgrading, so can I pay less tax?' |work=yahoo! News|url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/singaporescene/pm-lee-don-t-upgrading-pay-less-tax-20110405-231901-526.html}}</ref>
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