Casting of votes in this city might be extended until Wednesday after 80 vote counting machines have malfunctioned in several clustered precincts, a Comelec election officer said on Monday, May 9.
The camp of Presidential bet Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said they received reports of vote-buying that occurred since yesterday up to today’s national elections.
Several voters who were unable to vote trooped to the Commission on Elections city here with various complaints.
Election glitches figured in the morning of the country’s national elections as thousands of voters flocked very early to polling centers in the Davao region.
Hundreds of voters here feared they could not cast their votes for today’s elections because their names were delisted from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) official voter’s list.
Police confiscated a total of 181 firearms and 104 deadly weapons, and arrested 248 persons in the course of conducting election-related checkpoints in the region.
Barely a week before the May 9 elections, presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte has branded his rivals as a symbol of what he called a “failed and inutile system.”
The Commission on Elections claims it is fully ready for election day.
The Davao City Police Office said that a liquor ban will be observed during election day on Monday, May 9, citing as basis a local ordinance and a Commission on Elections (Comelec) resolution.
The tandem of Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano topped the mock election held last April 27 to 29 in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao.
