A boy helps his mother look for her name in the voters’ list at the Mariano Espina Memorial Central Elementary School in Barangay Taft in Surigao City on 13 May 2013. MindaNews photo by Roel N. Catoto
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/13 May) – One poll watcher was killed and four others were injured in when unidentified gunmen ambushed their vehicle in Panglima Estino town in Sulu minutes before the start of the mid-term elections Monday. Col. Jose Johriel
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — Long lines in this city’s polling places that were blamed on the fewer number of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines forced some voters to return homes, although others chose to stay on their lines
MARANTAO, Lanao del Sur (MindaNews/13 May) — Three persons were injured when a grenade was lobbed at a polling center inside the state-run Mindanao State University in Marawi City Monday but missed its target and landed instead on a nearby
PIKIT, North Cotabato (MindaNews/13 May) – Some residents of this town who were displaced during the wars in 2000, 2001 and 2003 between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front went home for today’s polls. The residents returned to
For the first time, inmates at the South Cotabato Rehabilitation and Detention Center in Koronadal City cast their votes for the May 13 polls. MindaNews photo by Bong S. Sarmiento
HELPING HAND. A young Army soldier helps an elderly woman after she went out from the voting center in Barangay Bagoingod, Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on Monday, 13 May 2013. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
Wafa Mabang, 48, uses the flashlight in her mobile phone to help her choose her candidates as she casts her vote at the Talitay Elementary School in Pikit, North Cotabato 13 May 2013. Barangay Talitay has no electricity since 2003.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — Already reeling from delays due to some defective precinct count optical scan or PCOS machines and compact flash (CF) memory cards, the ongoing voting in Koronadal City and parts of Sultan Kudarat and South
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/13 May)— Children were extensively used to distribute campaign materials of local politicians near polling precincts in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat in today’s national midterm and local elections, an election watchdog said. Photographs of children campaigning during election day
While waiting for their turn to vote, mothers set up baby swings outside a voting center at the Nabundas Elementary School, Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao on Monday 13 May 2013.[] MindaNews photo by Toto Lozano
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — A top official of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in North Cotabato has assured the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and other authorities the group will participate in today’s elections as agreed during the consultation
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — Boxing sensation and re-electionist Sarangani Rep. pharmacy Emmanuel Pacquiao has expressed confidence of a big win by his own party People’s Champ Movement (PCM) here and in Sarangani Province as he cast his votes
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — A suspected improvised explosive device went off inside the Pilot Central Elementary School of Kabacan, North Cotabato at 12am today, the 7th Infantry Battalion said. Nobody was hurt in the explosion that damaged some steel
