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 Dateline Philippines MANILA, Philippines – A re-electionist town mayor in Davao del Sur allegedly threatened to have a correspondent…
By Dateline Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Continuing reports of glitches and malfunctions in the operations of precinct count optical scan…
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.
DAVAO CITY—Seeing Filipino’s enthusiasm in using search engine Google’s Map Maker and realizing that automated elections will change many designated…
By GERMELINA LACORTE
Foreign observers said they’re aware that Filipinos will be braving bullets and bribes in today’s first ever automated elections but hope that their presence will deter electoral fraud.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has placed the city under its control in the country’s first automated elections.
