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.
Two days before the national and local elections, the grounds inside the Crocodile Park here were swelling with people coming from various areas in the city, including neighboring provinces for an attempt to break the Guinness record of the most number of people singing the national anthem.
Vice presidential aspirant Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos on Friday said the administration party is now “desperate” to win the elections and is now on their Plan B to forge alliances with other parties to ensure their win against Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte through an impeach case.
An election watchdog here said they are expecting massive voter disenfranchisement after they monitored the final testing and sealing of vote counting machines here Thursday, May 5.
An online petition has called on the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to suspend several television broadcasting networks for airing an advertisement against PDP-Laban Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte.
Four days before the national and local elections, the Board of Election Inspectors ran diagnostic tests for the final testing and sealing of the vote counting machines here on Thursday, May 5.
The camp of Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte has welcomed the endorsement of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), saying it is a significant gain to boost the presidential campaign of the Davao City mayor and at the same time to “thwart attempts by the administration to cheat the elections.”
