EARLY VOTERS. People line up while waiting for their turn to vote at the Baluarte Elementary School in Iloilo for the 2022 national and local elections on Monday (May 9, 2022). Western Visayas has over 5 million registered voters expected to troop to various polling precincts.(Photo courtesy of Jonathan Sayno) ILOILO CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) here is looking at an 80 percent turnout of the 5,026,482 registered voters in Western Visayas in this Monday's national and local elections. "We have seen the engagement of people during rallies regardless of the candidates. We saw their enthusiasm. At the end of the day we really encourage the people to vote so that they can really express what they want through the power of the ballot," said Comelec regional election director Wilfred Jay Balisado in a phone interview Monday. He said that one of the challenges that they saw was the provision of waiting or holding areas since other schools being used as voting cen
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