Election

Duterte bets dominate Davao poll winners

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May 18, 2010

By DAVAO TODAY
The daughter-and-father tandem of Vice Mayor Sara Duterte and outgoing Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and candidates identified with their political group Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod dominated the city’s recently concluded polls.

Duterte daughter and father proclaimed as winners

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May 12, 2010

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.

Poll watcher killed in Maragusan attack, says military

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May 12, 2010

By GRACE S. UDDIN
Captain Emmanuel Garcia, spokesperson of the 10th ID-AFP, said an undetermined number of rebels attacked soldiers of the 66th Infantry Battalion escorting a group of Board of Election Inspectors (BEI’s) for the canvassing of votes at the municipal hall of Maragusan.

The country’s first automated elections leave some voters angry

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May 12, 2010

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.

Marahan and Sasa voters endure long lines to vote

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May 12, 2010

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.