With more than 80% of all the votes counted, Mindanao’s lone candidate and dark horse for the presidency got 38.6 percent in a historic turnout of elections on Monday, May 9.
In a partial and unofficial results of the votes cast here, the tandem of Presidential aspirant Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano got majority of the votes.
In some polling precincts here, there were no available special precincts for senior citizens, persons with disability (PWD) and pregnant women, with some of them having to vote at the second floor of the polling precincts.
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)
Casting of votes in this city might be extended until Wednesday after 80 vote counting machines have malfunctioned in several clustered precincts, a Comelec election officer said on Monday, May 9.
The camp of Presidential bet Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said they received reports of vote-buying that occurred since yesterday up to today’s national elections.
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.
