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.
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.
For nine years, Lester Pillado works as a contractual in a fruit processing company here.
New People’s Army captives led by Police Chief Inspector Leonardo Tarungoy appealed in a video message for the military and the police to suspend its operations to pave way for their immediate release.
Sacked workers of Japanese-owned frozen food exporter Nakashin Davao International set up a protest camp outside the company’s office in Malagamot here Thursday, April 21 to demand for their immediate reinstatement.
