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TROUBLESHOOT. A PCOS (precinct count optical scanner) technician assists Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) insert the CF card to the machine. BEIs in one of the clustered precincts in Davao City’s Buhangin Central Elementary School had trouble operating the machine during the final testing and sealing Monday. (davaotoday.com photo by Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan)

Missing names, violations, PCOS glitches mar Elections’ first hours

DAVAO TODAY POOLED REPORT
Davao Today

According to poll watchdog Kontra Daya, machines in Panacan didn’t immediately turned on while those in Don Julian Elementary School in Agdao just shut down.

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Journalists’ survival guide for safe election coverage

By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today

The Media Safety Office of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the International Federation of Journalists has released a set of guidelines to help both local and national reporters, photojournalists and mediamen in covering this Monday’s midterm elections.

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NPA releases military, police captives in ComVal

By ACE R. MORANDANTE & JACOB P. NEPOMUCENO
Davao Today

The NDF said the arrest of Pansoy “reflected the NPA's consistent compliance to the people's defense guidelines banning armed politicians and campaigners in revolutionary territories,” while the arrest of Tomas “demonstrated the NPA's commitment in exacting revolutionary justice against a fascist AFP unit responsible for killing and wounding of children under the pretext of "legitimate encounter" with the NPA.”

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Vote buying by “Santa-Candidato”

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

Rice, according to Mella, has been proven to be one of the most effective items to win votes, particularly from those who are living below the poverty line.  “Hangga’t gutom ang tao, nabibili ang boto nya sa tatlong kilong bigas lamang (as long as the people are hungry, their votes could be bought for even three kilos of rice),” she said.

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Angry power consumers in Cotabato barricade vs Lopez-owned geothermal plants

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

“This is a manifestation of the peoples’ anger over the recurring six to eight hours daily rotational brown-outs,” Ruby Padilla-Sison, secretary general for Makabayan-North Cotabato

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