By DAVAO TODAY
The Communist New People’s Army has released the voice clips of Lingig town mayor Roberto Luna Jr. and four of his bodyguards, assuring their families that they are alive and safe. Listen to the podcast.
By CJ KUIZON
The PIOM also reported incidents of vote buying – in cash and in kind – and the military’s vigorous vilification campaign against partylists and senatorial candidates critical of the Arroyo administration.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The City Board of Canvassers lowered the threshold of votes necessary for the winning candidates to be proclaimed winners. The Board proclaimed the winners five hours after it resumed counting of votes on Wednesday, May 12.
By GRACE S. UDDIN
A supporter of House Speaker Prospero Nograles was detained at the Sta. Ana police station for alleged vote buying on the day of the elections.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
In Buhangin area, a voter saw the name of a dead relative while others look for the name of a living family member.
By GERMELINA LACORTE
Carmen Gultiano, a voter in one of the precinct clusters at the Daniel Aguinaldo National High School, came out of her precinct tired, agitated and unable to hide her frustrations after spending six hours just to vote. Gultiano arrived at her precinct at eight o’clock in the morning and was only able to vote at two thirty in the afternoon.
By JETTY AYOP-OHAYLAN AND MARIETTA BASTE-HERNANI
In Marahan Central Elementary School in the city’s third district, the voting pace was slow, and even those who went before the poll centers opened waited for five hours for their turn to vote. The school had two precincts with 1,000 total voters. By noon, only 30 percent of the total number has cast their votes.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
It was not the machine glitches that many people were worried about but the poll clerk’s hunt for names of registered voters and other verification procedures that slowed down the voting process in the recently-concluded elections.
