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 of the Philippine Daily Inquirer killed after the elections, the…
By Dateline Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Continuing reports of glitches and malfunctions in the operations of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines led an election commissioner to rate the “technical…
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.
