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| Initial partial and unofficial results for the presidential contest show Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City leading by a wide margin. |
Earlier today, Monday, May 9, 2016, more than
54 million Filipinos have cast their votes. (There has been no official report
from Comelec that should explain why the voter’s list attacked by hackers on
March 27, contained names of 70 million voters. The official total claimed by
Comelec is 54.3 million voters).
Days before the polls civil society groups
and Internet chatter point to a massive electoral fraud being plotted. Among
the signs noted by many, is the report that hundreds of vote counting machine (VCM)
technicians have been fired by the Comelec just before the polls.
Reports from different places in the
Philippines do show many VCMs not working at all, or machines that reject ballots, or where
voter’s receipts given to the voter reflect the name of another candidate that he/she did not vote for.
These, in addition to reports of vote buying,
vote selling, campaign offenses, violation of guidelines set by Comelec by the
Board of Elections Inspectors (BEI) on the ground, and other election-related
incidents.
In Marinduque, there were delays in the
voting process in some precincts due to VCM malfunctions, wrong ballots
delivered to a clustered precinct, the usual “last minute shopping” for votes, among
others.
Random reports on problems encountered by
voters as posted on Facebook are the following:
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| Without a functioning machine, voters were asked to cast their votes in Bangbangalon Elementary School (Boac), with no voter's receipts, and their ballots just collected by the board of election inspectors (BEI) |
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| PCOS machine in Precints #32-A to #35A not functioning. |
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No voting occurred in Brgy, Alobo as ballots
received there were intended for Brgy, Malalag, Maitum, Sarangani Province in
Mindanao. This was verified by a report dispatched by MindaNews earlier today
that stated, "voting was hampered at a clustered precinct at the Malalag
Elementary School in Maitum, Sarangani Province due to erroneous ballots."
Poll
personnel discovered at the opening of the precinct at 6 am that the delivered
ballots were for a precinct in Sta. Cruz, Marinduque province.
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| Post from Mogpog mayoralty candidate Adeline Lyn Angeles concerning "last minute shopping" at P500 per vote in the said town. |
Meanwhile, the website Marinduque News Portal is currently showing partial and unofficial Election Returns in this
island-province, and may accessed here. It is being updated now and then.
