Author: DAVAO TODAY

Voting Break. The voting at the Ubalde Elementary School in Agdao had to be stop around noontime because of the lack of ballots. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel Hernani)

By Grace S. Uddin
Davao Today

AGDAO, Davao City — Despite the infant in her arms, Marivic Nistal, 29, of barangay Ubalde in Agdao, did not mind walking the distance from her house under the heat of the sun just to be able to vote.

But luck was not on her side today, as well as the other voters who lined up earlier, because the precinct ran out ballots.

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By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today

DAVAO CITY — Families were torn apart, the dead appeared on the voters’ list, while some people stormed out after they lost their patience in today’s polls.

There may be no reported case of violence in Davao City but not a few people went home angry and exasperated after failing to find their names on the voters’ list.
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By Jeti Ayop-Ohaylan
Davao Today

MARILOG, Davao City — Several voters at the Marilog Central Elementary School complained today that they could not find their names on the voters? list. Reynaldo Bacalso, 49, said a number of the voters failed to vote as a result.

Many of the voters came from the sitios of Quimasog, Santo Nino and Lomondao, all of this barangay. They complained, Bacalso said, that their votes had gone to waste.
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By Marilou M. Aguirre
Davao Today

TORIL, Davao City — Some candidates in the city’s Third District had a last minute vote-buying spree in Crossing Bayabas last night.

This is according to Boy, a driver and operator of public utility jeepney. Although Boy provided davaotoday.com with his full name, he request anonymity for fear of his safety.
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