Just like in past elections, Filipinos trooped to the polls in huge numbers and lined up for hours enduring the summer heat and the disorganization of poll officers, to exercise their duty to choose their leaders.
For the first time I am voting in my father’s hometown. And as I write this I am inside the Alaminos Central Elementary School, one in over a few hundreds of registered residents who have come out to exercise our most sacred right to vote.
The Commission on Elections reported over 1,800 incidents involving problems with the automated vote-counting machines (VCM), stalling lines in several polling centers.
Political wounds may take time to heal completely, but the process should begin slowly soon after the votes are counted.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) assured that COVID-19 marshals and safety officers are deployed in polling precincts to make sure that minimum public health standards, such as physical distancing and wearing of masks, are followed.
According to Commissioner Garcia, around seven million first-time voters will be the “game changers” in today’s elections.
An altered graphic showing presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. gaining 99.9% of the voter share in a survey has resurfaced days before the election. This is a satire.
The fact checks since February saw the proliferation of information that tends to sow confusion in the conduct of voting which could undermine the results of the election.
This same heart of a fighter, which turned Pacquiao into a beloved Filipino sports icon, kept him in the presidential race to the very end, even when most thought he should never have forayed into politics, much less seek the highest position in the land.
A satirical Facebook page claiming presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. promised to lower the country’s unemployment rate to zero is misleading netizens into believing it to be true.
