Almost 600 policemen served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) in Cotabato City and some polling precincts in the province of Maguindanao, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Monday, May 9. Police Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, director of the Police Regional Office- Bangsamoro Autonomou
Election-related violence and anomalies in several parts of the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have been reported by poll watchdogs and local media organizations.
PEACEFUL. Situations in some schools in Aguilar and Mangatarem in Pangasinan during the May 9, 2022 polls. Authorities said there were generally peaceful elections in their respective areas. (Photo by Joann Santiago-Villanueva) AGUILAR, Pangasinan - School heads in various polling centers here consider the local and national elections as peaceful and smooth, attributing this to adequate preparation on their part and to people's cooperation. Enrico T. Prado National High School principal Cristobal Cristobal said final testing and sealing (FTS) of the vote counting machine was done last Friday. "We conducted FTS last Friday and it was a success," he said in an interview by the Philippine News Agency (PNA). Cristobal said there are about 700 voters assigned to the single precinct in the school, and some are in the school as early as 6 a.m. He said voters cast their ballots until 7 p.m. and BEIs were mandated to wait for voters as long as they were within the premises by that
PEACEFUL. Personnel of the Antique Provincial Police during their deployment for peaceful and orderly elections on May 5, 2022. Antique Provincial Police Office information officer Staff Sgt. John Mark Gonzaga said on Monday (May 9, 2022) no election-related incident has been monitored.(PNA file photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Policemen on poll duties will have to secure the vote counting machines until these are returned to the warehouses, an official of the Antique Provincial Police Office (APPO) said on Monday. "We assure that the police will be securing the polling precincts until it closes," APPO information officer John Mark Gonzaga said in an interview. Gonzaga said 75 percent of the registered voters were able to cast their votes as of noontime but the police would have to secure the VCMs until the last voter at 7 p.m. and until the machines are returned to the warehouses. The APPO added that they did not monitor any election-
The Department of Information and Communications Technology said on Saturday it was fast-tracking the processing of the digital signatures of more than 800 public school teachers who will serve in today’s elections in Quezon City.