UniTeam senatorial candidate Loren Legarda on Monday was one of the first voters to arrive in Barangay Mag-aba in the Municipality of Pandan in this province and queued up at the express lane for seniors while waiting for her turn to be admitted at Precinct 26. Arriving a few minutes before the 6 a.m. opening of the polling center, Legarda, 62, told the media that she was looking forward to a safe, orderly, and peaceful election. “I am not saying goodbye to Antiqueños for I will continue to serve the province and the country,” she said in an interview before
The conduct of the local and national elections in Central Luzon went smoothly on Monday despite minor glitches in the operation of vote counting machines (VCMs) in some polling precincts in the region. Lawyer Elmo Duque, assistant regional director of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), said as of early Monday afternoon, there were at least 26 VCMs and four secure digital or SD cards that were found defective in a number of polling precincts in Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Bataan, Aurora, Pampanga, and Tarlac. He, however, said the glitches have been addressed even as he noted that there are 194
Minor glitches experienced by vote-counting machines (VCMs) in a Malabon City public school were quickly resolved before noon, an official said Monday. Melibeth Ruiz, principal of the Concepcion Elementary School (CES), said a VCM in cluster 41 with precinct numbers 100A, 100B, 100C, 101A malfunctioned and failed to accept shaded ballots. “Mayroon lang kaming naencounter ngayon ngayon lang, ,may isang VCM na ayaw magbasa ng balota ng tuloy-tuloy so nagkaroon kami ng delay dahil kinakailangan ipasok ng paulit-ulit yung mga balota para basahin niya (We encountered something just recently, one of our VCMs failed to read the ballots continuously so
Over 500 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) here exercised their right to suffrage on Monday. In a press conference, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Dagupan election supervisor lawyer Michael Franks Sarmiento said there were seven special areas in the BJMP facility where the PDLs cast their votes. “There were a total of 663 PDLs who qualified to vote as of February but some were released prior to the elections, about a hundred of them according to BJMP,” he said. He added those who were released, however, may vote in the precincts where
Suspected election saboteurs fired an M79 grenade projectile at a voting center in Datu Piang, Maguindanao, leaving six voters injured, police said Monday. Maj. Roldan Kundong, the Maguindanao police spokesperson, said the shoulder-fired projectile landed beside the covered court inside Datu Piang Elementary School in Barangay Buayan at 11:15 a.m. amid the queue of voters. “They were inside the school’s covered court waiting for their names to be called to vote when the explosion occurred,” Kundong said. Injured were Lebe Calunting, Satar Andoy, Aladin Kusain, Nasser Guiali, Anib Kanakan, and Ukal Guiali. They were all rushed to a local hospital.
Top officials of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental have denounced the violence that claimed the life of a public school teacher on the eve of the May 9 national and local elections. Mercy Nequia-Miguel, 49, of Barangay Caradio-an, assigned at Himamaylan City National High School and was set to serve in Monday’s polls, was shot to death by unidentified assailants on her way home with her husband at around 8:30 p.m. Mayor Raymund Tongson said the city government condemns the death of the teacher and ordered the police to “exhaust all efforts to arrest the killers”. “The motive is yet to
