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The Filipinos witnessed and observed the voting system to be a messy and chaotic affair, consistent with the whole 2010 elections being anything but clean, physically and figuratively. While the election brouhaha may be over, the country still has a lot of subsequent events and issues to contend with. One is the issue related to election fraud, malfunction and violence of which the current Arroyo regime and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) need to be accounted for.
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Elections throughout the country may seem to draw to a close, but in Quezon province, the outcome remains idle.

Volunteers of the Southern Tagalog regional poll-watch dog Kontra Daya, Kontra Karahasan staged a picket protest in front of the office of the Quezon Provincial Board in Lucena City at 9am today in response to the 24-hour delay of canvassing in the province. Over a hundred protesters also denounced the ongoing military intervention in the electoral process and harassments against militant partylist groups in the province.
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The ACT TEACHERS Partylist today urged the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to give teachers who served on the Boards of Election Inspectors in the May 10 elections additional compensation.
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On May 10, our nine-person delegation, which includes members from Canada, the United States, Hong Kong and the Philippines, observed elections in Davao del Sur. We were dismayed at the many examples of voter fraud, voter intimidation, and a variety of irregularities that prevented a free and fair election.
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(Raymund Villanueva, Kodao Productions' Director for Radio was assigned to cover news about the People's International Observers Mission in Lanao Del Sur. Watch video of the Tugaya firefight here.)
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We congratulate president-elect Noynoy Aquino for his clear victory in the May 10 elections.

As the nation welcomes a new administration, the challenge to address the problems of extremely low wages and job insecurity, landlessness and backward agrarian conditions in the countryside, the peace process, declining government social services, the much-hated value added tax (VAT), and the massive corruption in government and society will now put in focus what the incoming President will and can do.
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LANAO DEL SUR-A two-hour gunfight erupted as polling places opened in Tugaya, Lanao del Sur at about nine-thirty in the morning of election day, killing one young woman and wounding two others.

Aslea Panda died four hours later in a hospital in Marawi City while her brother Sobair Panda was also wounded.  Another unidentified victim was treated from gunshot wounds. Relatives of Tugaya mayor Alimatar Guro Alim and rival Mangawan Balindong Pacalna exchanged M60 machine gun fire and rifle-propelled grenades, as well as assault rifle and semi-automatic pistol fire.
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The first five hours of country’s first automated national elections have been characterized by delayed voting,  slow and poorly organized voting system, and widespread PCOS machine malfunction. There were also sporadic reports of cases of poll-related violence in several areas.
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BACOOR, CAVITE Delegates of the International Observers’ Mission witnessed first-hand how the first automated national and local elections are being conducted, albeit chaotically in the Philippines. Mambog Elemetary School opened at exactly 7 in the morning  and election irregularities were found as observers interviewed PPCRV volunteers and local voters in the area. Many voters complain waiting in line for hours in their assigned voting precints. Some came to the precints as early as 6am and finished voting at 9am.  read more »