2007 Elections

By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY — Families were torn apart, the dead appeared on the voters’ list, while some people stormed out after they lost their patience in today’s polls.

There may be no reported case of violence in Davao City but not a few people went home angry and exasperated after failing to find their names on the voters’ list.
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By Jetty Ayop-Ohaylan
davaotoday.com

MARILOG, Davao City — Several voters at the Marilog Central Elementary School complained today that they could not find their names on the voters? list. Reynaldo Bacalso, 49, said a number of the voters failed to vote as a result.

Many of the voters came from the sitios of Quimasog, Santo Nino and Lomondao, all of this barangay. They complained, Bacalso said, that their votes had gone to waste.
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By Marilou M. Aguirre
davaotoday.com

TORIL, Davao City — Some candidates in the city’s Third District had a last minute vote-buying spree in Crossing Bayabas last night.

This is according to Boy, a driver and operator of public utility jeepney. Although Boy provided davaotoday.com with his full name, he request anonymity for fear of his safety.
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DAVAO CITY ? Joselito ?Peter? Cayetano, the namesake of opposition senatorial candidate Alan Peter Cayetano, was still a candidate for senator, according to Eva Antipuesto, the assistant superintendent of the Department of Education?s division office here.
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