By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ LIGAYA Patañaga, 81, was the first voter to experience the relative comfort of voting at the accessible polling place (APP) at SM Manila for the barangay elections. She was all-praises for the voting center, which was very convenient for her compared to the Araullo High School, where she always had to

By VERA FILES (UPDATED) The nationwide barangay election on Monday was generally peaceful despite scattered violent incidents and cases of election offenses, the Commission on Elections said. “On the overall, at this point in time, mukhang okay na okay ang nangyayari. Wala kaming masyadong problema (There are few election-related incidents so far. It seems everything is

By BONG S. SARMIENTO, MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY—In less than five minutes after approaching the Board of Election Tellers on Monday for the 2013 Barangay Elections, Gloria Rivera and Bartolome Hoyo separately emerged from the polling center with wide smiles. Unlike majority of the voters who suffered the scorching heat of the sun and long