Nueva Ecija 
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Automation failure casts doubt on poll results in Nueva Ecija
By E.V. CARREON GUIMBA, Nueva Ecija.—At least 60 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines that went missing here after the May 10 elections are now at the Commission on Elections provincial office, with Smartmatic unable to explain how it lost control of these machines. The Comelec ordered the PCOS machines brought to its provincial office »Read More
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‘Gapangan’: Vote-buying in Nueva Ecija
By CARLOS D. MARQUEZ JR. Nueva Ecija Gold CABANATUAN CITY.—Mang Cesar sat on the curb for hours on election eve expecting the politician’s ward who earlier in the day had gotten their names after asking who they will vote for mayor would return and give him money. He was looking forward to using the money »Read More
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Defective PCOS machines, new type of vote-buying mark Ecija polls
By CARLOS MARQUEZ Nueva Ecija Gold CABANATUAN CITY. – Apparently excited over experiencing the first automated election, Nueva Ecija’s 1.3 million voters lined up early Monday morning at their polling precincts, elbowed each other in looking for their names in the list, as some nearly swooned because of the oppressive heat–-only to be greeted by »Read More
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All quiet in ‘wild, wild Nueva Ecija’?
By CARLOS MARQUEZ JR. Nueva Ecija Gold CABANATUAN CITY.—It is unusually quiet here this poll season and observers are keeping their fingers crossed there will be no more of the killings that characterized past electoral exercises in this province once called “Wild, wild Nueva Ecija.” Except for the killing of a barangay captain in Aliaga »Read More
