MANILA, Philippines - Some registered voters in Malabon got irritated when Nacionalista Party (NP) vice-presidential guest candidate Loren Legarda went ahead of the queue at the precinct when polls opened on Monday.
Some supporters in Potrero, Malabon cheered "Loren, Loren, Loren" when she arrived, while other voters reminded Legarda that she should fall in line.
"Ma'am, pila po kayo," some voters said.
"Ay pila ba to, ay sorry ha? Gusto nyo akong pumila, balik ako sa pila? Sobrang bagal ba?" replied Legarda.
Despite the appeal of those who were in line, Legarda still proceeded to vote ahead of them.
Meanwhile, Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino II chose to fall in line in his designated polling precinct in Tarlac.
As of posting time, Aquino was still waiting to cast his vote since the PCOS machine deployed in his precinct malfunctioned.
Aquino said that they were informed that 2 hours since his precinct opened, only 100 people had been able to cast their votes.
He said they were told that there was no spare PCOS machine, and voters have to wait for a Smartmatic-TIM technician to fix the problem before they can actually vote.
Due to the automated election system, the Commission on Elections clustered 5 to 7 precincts into one. As a result of having more voters per precinct, the poll body prolonged voting hours from 7 am to 3 pm to 7 am to 6 pm.
Under the manual system, there were 300,000 precincts; now, there are 76,347 precincts. The number of registered voters, meanwhile, rose from around 45 million to an all-time high of 50 million. -- With reports from Marie Lozano, ABS-CBN News and Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
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