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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:16 PM
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Aquino leads Philippine poll count
Source: al jazeera

Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, the front-runner for the presidency, has taken a huge lead in the race for the Philippine presidency.

Unofficial tallies of 38 per cent of votes cast showed Aquino well in front with 40.1 per cent, ahead of Joseph Estrada, the former President, in second place with 25.8 per cent, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday.
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Al Jazeera's Veronica Pedrosa, reporting from Manila, the capital, said that voters who had already arrived at polling stations were allowed to vote but new arrivals had been turned away.
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Problems with some of the new voting machines had added to the delay, Aquino as well as some of his rivals, were also caught up in.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/05/2010510113751308339.html
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:21 PM
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1. Before anyone here gets upset about the use of electronic voting machines...
...please be aware that Filipinos are perfectly capable of stealing elections the old-fashioned way (and I say that having lived there...)
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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:25 PM
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2. sad sarcasm, funny and true at the same time. agreed. n/t
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