Politics

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.

Snail-paced voting blamed on new clustering scheme

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May 11, 2010

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.