By Marilou M. Aguirre
davaotoday.com
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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DAVAO CITY ? Joselito ?Peter? Cayetano, the namesake of opposition senatorial candidate Alan Peter Cayetano, was still a candidate for senator, according to Eva Antipuesto, the assistant superintendent of the Department of Education?s division office here.
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By Marietta Baste-Hernani
davaotoday.com
BUHANGIN, Davao City — As with other areas around the city, the missing names of voters was also a common complaint today at the Buhangin Elementary School and at the Dumanlas Elementary Schools, all in the second district.
In the 2004 elections, Jane Brave, 50, her husband Benedicto and their daughter Jenny were able to vote. But in today?s elections, only Benedicto?s name was on the voters? list at Precinct 1598-A.
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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.
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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