An election personnel completes data transmission using the vote counting machine’s battery as electricity is cut off as of 6:15 pm at the Don Cesario Villa-Abrille Elementary School in Davao City. (Maria Patricia C. Borromeo/davaotoday.com)
At around 3:17 pm, Monday (May 9) Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte casts his vote at the Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School in Matina Aplaya, Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Members of the Explosive Ordinance Division (EOD) inspect Precinct Cluster 416 in Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School in Matina Aplaya, Davao City where Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte will cash his vote Monday afternoon.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Around 7,500 city employees assemble in front of the Davao City Hall on Saturday, May 7 to debunk the allegations that the city government has 11,000 ghost employees. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Thousands of supporters of Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte gather in Davao City two days before the elections. The singing of the national anthem was also an attempt to break the Guinness World Record. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The mass up of tens of thousands of Davao residents to gather for the Guinness World Record attempt and to support Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte caused heavy traffic in the city for hours on Saturday, May 7. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The official tally only recorded 94,584 Davaoeños gather by 5:00 pm at the Crocodile Park ground to sing the National Anthem simultaneously in a bid to break the Guinness World Record. The number was far from the targeted 300,000 but the crowd also showed support for Presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Vice Presidential aspirant Senator Ferdinand “Bong-bong” Marcos Jr., talks of an administration desperate in stopping current front runner, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as it tenders alliance with, which is turned down by, Senator Grace Poe. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Doves fly high as youth leaders encourage the people to not vote for the Liberal Party as they did not do anything beneficial to the people. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Protesters rename the Comelec’s Vote Counting Machine (VCM) into Vote Cheating Machine in response to the allegations that some precincts counted votes for Manuel Roxas despite Rodrigo Duterte being voted during the final testing and sealing of the machines in some areas in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
